Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(73): 29 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Clar. Dallachy in montibus pone Rockingham's Bay."

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

orthographic variant: Schoenus melanostachys var. altissima F.Muell. orth. var.

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

taxonomic synonym of: Schoenus melanostachys R.Br. legitimate

Musili, P.M., Bruhl, J.J. & Wilson, K.L. (14 June 2018), Schoenus rupicola: a narrowly endemic species distinguished from S. melanostachys (Cyperaceae, Schoeneae) in eastern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 31(3): 223 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Queensland: Rockingham Bay, [?Dallachy], [no date] (holotype: MEL 2202027; isotypes: BR 0000013463199, 0000013463205 and 00000134 63229 (images seen), G 00192000)."

Musili, P.M., Bruhl, J.J. & Wilson, K.L. (14 June 2018), Schoenus rupicola: a narrowly endemic species distinguished from S. melanostachys (Cyperaceae, Schoeneae) in eastern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 31(3): 223 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Schoenus melanostachys R.Br. legitimate

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