Wahlenberg, G. (1803), Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 24: 163 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "C. polygama SCHKUHR Car. n. 70. tab. X. Gg. fig. 76 Buxbaum Cent. 4. pag. 33. tab. 59. Hab. in paludosis Sveciae, ex. gr. in Stormossan ad Östhammar, & in Lapponia unique."

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), North Australian Botany. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 246 [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xcvi [secondary reference]

Boott, F. (1867), Illustrations of the Genus Carex 4: 136, t. 438-439 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 444 [secondary reference]

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

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1909), Cyperaceae - Caricoideae. Das Pflanzenreich 38: 393 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 495 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 11 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Previous record not substantiated."

Wilson, K.L. (1 July 1996), A new Australian species of Carex (Cyperaceae) and notes on two other species. Telopea 6(4): 572 [secondary reference]

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

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

nomenclatural synonym: Carex buxbaumii Wahlenb. subsp. buxbaumii legitimate

• APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 84 [secondary reference]

Baker, M.L., Wapstra, M. & Lawrence, D. (20 August 2019), An annotated census of the lesser-known naturalised plants of Tasmania. Muelleria 38: 57 [secondary reference]

common name: club sedge [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Carex buxbaumii Wahlenb. subsp. buxbaumii legitimate

• APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised), Vic (uncertain origin), Tas (doubtfully naturalised)

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