Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1846), Cyperaceae. Plantae Preissianae 2(1): 81 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Chaetospora cygnea Nees legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 363 [secondary reference]

pro parte nomenclatural synonym: Chaetospora cygnea Nees legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 127 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 13 [secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. (1938), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae III. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 44(11-20): 175 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Schoenus brevisetis var. cygneus (Nees) Kük. legitimate

Kükenthal, G. (1938), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae III. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 44(11-20): 174 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Schoenus brevisetis var. subimberbis Benth. legitimate

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: 898 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Schoenus brevisetis (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Schoenus brevisetis (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

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