Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 232 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (T.) v.v.

Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. (1834), Uebersicht der Cyperaceengattungen. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 9: 298 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 372 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Schoenus elatus Boeckeler legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 128 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 598 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 471 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Schoenus elatus Boeckeler legitimate

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

Kükenthal, G. (1938), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 44(1): 24 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Schoenus elatus Boeckeler legitimate

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 207 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 226 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 677 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Schoenus elatus Boeckeler legitimate

Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 499 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 43 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 27 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 345 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1103, Fig. 311H [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 209 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Schoenus elatus Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lophocarpus tonquinensis Boeckeler legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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

misapplied to: Baumea acuta (Labill.) Palla legitimate by Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. (1834), Uebersicht der Cyperaceengattungen. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 9: 298

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Machaerina acuta (Labill.) J.Kern legitimate by Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. (1834), Uebersicht der Cyperaceengattungen. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 9: 298

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