Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants: 33 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In the vallies of the Upper Mitta Mitta, near Mount Hotham."

• 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: 334 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 259 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Carex acuta L. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 443 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Carex acuta L. legitimate

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1909), Cyperaceae - Caricoideae. Das Pflanzenreich 38: 318 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carex cunninghamii Boott legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Carex cunninghamii Boott legitimate misapplication: Carex acuta L. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 259 misapplication: Carex acuta L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 443 misapplication: Carex acuta L. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 129, 143 misapplication: Carex acuta L. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 12(94): 26 misapplication: Carex acuta L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1883), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora: 617 misapplication: Carex acuta L. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 218 misapplication: Carex acuta L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1890), Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland: 54 misapplication: Carex acuta L. legitimate by Moore, C. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales: 465 misapplication: Carex acuta L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1805 misapplication: Carex acuta L. legitimate by Ewart, A.J. (1910), The Flora of the Victorian Alps. The Victorian Naturalist 28(6): 109 misapplication: Carex acuta L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 602

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 505 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 75 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Carex acuta L. legitimate

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 353, Fig. 52P [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 391-392 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Carex. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 156-157 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carex acuta L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex cunninghamii Boott legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 347-348, Fig. 69d, 70m [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: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carex cunninghamii Boott legitimate isonym: Carex polyantha F.Muell. isonym misapplication: Carex acuta L. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 259 misapplication: Carex acuta L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 443 misapplication: Carex acuta L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 602

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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]

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