Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. (1828), Sieber's Agrostothek. Flora: oder Allgemeine Botanischer Zeitung 11: 292 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(Sieber. Agrost. n. 19.)"

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: A name of uncertain application.

Barrett, R.L. & Wilson, K.L. (16 June 2022), Machaerina ascendens (Cyperaceae), a rare new species from the far south-west of Western Australia, and a new combination for Schoenus abbreviatus Nees. Telopea 25: 176 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(here designated): New South Wales: Sydney District, 1823, F.W.Sieber Agrost. No. 19 (P 00585281). Isolectotypes: G 00195262, G 00195263, G 00195264, H 1224937 (image), L 0042667 (image), L 0042668 (image), MEL 2292591, MEL 2297528, W 1889-0265769 (image)."

Barrett, R.L. & Wilson, K.L. (16 June 2022), Machaerina ascendens (Cyperaceae), a rare new species from the far south-west of Western Australia, and a new combination for Schoenus abbreviatus Nees. Telopea 25: 176 [basionym]

basionym of: Machaerina abbreviata (Nees) R.L.Barrett & K.L.Wilson legitimate

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