Murray, J.A. (1784), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 14: 846 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Thunb. jap. mspt. M."

• Comment: Predates publication by Thunberg in Fl. Japonica (Aug. 1784) 39 where the citation "Crescit in arenosis juxta viarum margines in insula Nipon, rarius." is given.

Hooker, J.D. (1864), Handbook of the New Zealand Flora 1: 315 [secondary reference]

Boott, F. (1867), Illustrations of the Genus Carex 4: 217 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(70): 251 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 93 [secondary reference]

Boeckeler, J.O. (April 1877), Die Cyperaceen des Koniglichen Herbariums zu Berlin. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 41(4): 298 [basionym]

basionym of: Carex nutans γ pumila (Thunb. ex Murray) Boeckeler legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 445 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carex littorea Labill. legitimate

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3: 86 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 129, 143 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 253 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carex littorea Labill. legitimate

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1909), Cyperaceae - Caricoideae. Das Pflanzenreich 38: 738-740 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Carex nutans γ pumila (Thunb. ex Murray) Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex littorea Labill. legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 497-498 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Carex nutans γ pumila (Thunb. ex Murray) Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex littorea Labill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex pumila subsp. littorea (Labill.) Kük. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 98 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 170-171 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 504, 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]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 39 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. & Weber, J.Z. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Cyperaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 2013 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 876 [secondary reference]

common name: Strand Sedge [n/a]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 352, Fig. 52L [secondary reference]

common name: Strand Sedge [n/a]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 390 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Carex. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 166 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carex littorea Labill. legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 442 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 342, Fig. 69b, 70e [secondary reference]

common name: Strand Sedge [n/a]

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

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

common name: Strand Sedge [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Carex nutans γ pumila (Thunb. ex Murray) Boeckeler legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Carex pumila Thunb. ex Murray subsp. pumila legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Carex pumila Thunb. ex Murray var. pumila legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex littorea Labill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex litorea F.Muell. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Carex pumila subsp. littorea (Labill.) Kük. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, Qld, NSW, LHI, Vic, Tas

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

misapplied to: Carex bichenoviana Boott legitimate by Jessop, J.P. & Weber, J.Z. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Cyperaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 2013

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]

taxonomic synonym: Carex littorea Labill. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Carex nutans γ pumila (Thunb. ex Murray) Boeckeler legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Carex pumila Thunb. ex Murray subsp. pumila legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Carex pumila Thunb. ex Murray var. pumila legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex littorea Labill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carex litorea F.Muell. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Carex pumila subsp. littorea (Labill.) Kük. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Carex nutans Host nom. illeg. by Boeckeler, J.O. (April 1877), Die Cyperaceen des Koniglichen Herbariums zu Berlin. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 41(4): 296-298

• APC Dist.: WA, Qld, NSW, LHI, Vic, Tas

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