Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 242 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(J.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 20 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 93 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 440 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Carex paniculata L. legitimate

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 252 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Carex paniculata L. legitimate

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1909), Cyperaceae - Caricoideae. Das Pflanzenreich 38: 178-180 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 492 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864), The Vegetation of the Chatham-Islands: 57 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 129 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1883), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora: 616 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 218 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Tate, R. (1890), A Handbook of the Flora of Extratropical South Australia: 184, 264 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1890), Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland: 54 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Moore, C. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales: 464 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Tepper, J.G.O. (1895), Die flora von Clarendon und Umgegend (Sud-Australien). Botanisches Centralblatt 63(2/3): 39 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1803 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Turner, F. (1903), The vegetation of New England, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 307 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Turner, F. (1904), Botany of south-western New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29: 177 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Turner, F. (1905), Botany of north-western New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 30: 85 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Ewart, A.J. (1910), Biological survey of Wilson's Promontory. The Victorian Naturalist 26(9): 130 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Ewart, A.J. (1910), The Flora of the Victorian Alps. The Victorian Naturalist 28(6): 109 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1912), Botany. Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. Queensland Agricultural Journal 28(3): 203 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 602

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 98 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carex paniculata L. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 170 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 440

Nelmes, E. (1951), The Genus Carex in Malaysia. Reinwardtia 1(3): 432-433 [secondary reference]

• Type: as "New South Wales, R. Brown."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 505 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 76 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. & Nooteboom, H.P. (1979), Cyperaceae — II. Flora Malesiana Series I 9(1): 177 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 155 [secondary reference]

common name: Tall Sedge [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 10 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 39 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 15

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 875 [secondary reference]

common name: Tall Sedge [n/a]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 353, Fig. 52M [secondary reference]

misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 440 common name: Tall Sedge [n/a]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 392-393, pl. 24 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Carex. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 152 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 349, Fig. 71b [secondary reference]

common name: Tall Sedge [n/a]

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 98 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 267 [secondary reference]

common name: Tall Sedge [n/a]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 440 common name: Tall Sedge [n/a]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

common name: Tall Sedge [n/a]

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Carex apressa K.A.W.Williams orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Carex appressa R.Br. var. appressa legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Carex appressa R.Br. f. appressa legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex diaphana Boott legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex chlorantha var. composita Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex paniculata var. subdiaphana Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex appressa var. virgata (Sol. ex Boott) Kük. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex appressa f. minor Kük. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex inversa f. parvula Kük. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex appressa f. diaphana (Boott) Kük. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex appressa var. diaphana (Boott) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex appressa var. typica Domin nom. inval. misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 440 misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 252

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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

taxonomic synonym: Carex virgata Sol. ex Boott legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex appressa var. virgata (Sol. ex Boott) Kük. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex appressa f. minor Kük. legitimate misapplication: Carex paniculata L. legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 252

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