Boott, F. in Hooker, J.D. (5 December 1853), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae 1(4): 280, t. 63c [tax. nov.]

• Type: "North Island; top of the Ruahine mountains, Colenso."

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 437 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Carex pyrenaica Wahlenb. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(70): 251

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 129 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 252 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carex pyrenaica Wahlenb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex archeri Boott legitimate

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1909), Cyperaceae - Caricoideae. Das Pflanzenreich 38: 100 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carex archeri Boott legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 491 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carex archeri Boott legitimate misapplication: Carex pyrenaica Wahlenb. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(70): 251

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Carex archeri Boott legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 83 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Carex archeri Boott legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 252

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Carex archeri Boott legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 252

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