Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants: 34 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "On the grassy summits of the Munyang Mountains, moistened by the perpetual glaciers, or on the most elevated springs."

• Comment: See paper by O.Seberg, Taxon 35: 262-271 (1986), which discusses the date of publication of Mueller's preprint.

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 335 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 437 [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: 106 [basionym]

basionym of: Carex pyrenaica var. cephalotes (F.Muell.) Kük. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Carex pyrenaica var. cephalotes (F.Muell.) Kük. legitimate

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 146, Fig. 111 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Carex pyrenaica var. cephalotes (F.Muell.) Kük. legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 395-396 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Carex pyrenaica var. cephalotes (F.Muell.) Kük. legitimate

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Carex. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 149 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 355, Fig. 69c, 71n [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Carex pyrenaica var. cephalotes (F.Muell.) Kük. legitimate

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

common name: Wire-head Sedge [n/a]

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

orthographic variant: Carex cephatotes F.Muell. orth. var.

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Carex pyrenaica var. cephalotes (F.Muell.) Kük. legitimate

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]

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

orthographic variant: Carex cephatotes F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Carex pyrenaica var. cephalotes (F.Muell.) Kük. legitimate isonym: Carex cephalotes F.Muell. isonym misapplication: Carex capitata L. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(70): 251 misapplication: Carex capitata L. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(80): 192

• APC Dist.: NSW, Vic, Tas

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