Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 974 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europa septentrionali."

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]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 439 [secondary reference]

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

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

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1909), Cyperaceae - Caricoideae. Das Pflanzenreich 38: 216-218 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 493 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carex curta Gooden. legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 394-395 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Carex canescens var. robustior Blytt ex Andersson legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex curta Gooden. legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 352-353, Fig. 71j APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carex curta Gooden. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex canescens var. robustior Blytt ex Andersson legitimate

• APC Comment: Treated as Carex curta in Tas.
• APC Dist.: NSW, Vic, Tas

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

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

misapplied to: Carex curta Gooden. legitimate by 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

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