Pursh, F.T. (1814), Flora Americae Septentrionalis 1: 55 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In wet meadows: Pensylvania. July, Aug. v.v."

• Comment: nom. illeg., non Lam. (1791)

Boeckeler, J.O. (December 1870), Die Cyperaceen des Königlichen Herbariums zu Berlin. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 36(6): 700 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Scirpus supinus var. β digynus Boeckeler legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 332 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Scirpus juncoides Roxb. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 126 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 595 [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]

Raynal, J. (1976), Notes Cyperologiques: 26. Le genre Schoenplectus II. L'amphicarpie et la Sect. Supini. Adansonia: recueil périodique d'observations botanique, n.s 16: 139 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Schoenoplectus dissachanthus (S.T.Blake) J.Raynal legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Scirpus supinus var. β digynus Boeckeler legitimate

• APC Comment: An American taxon, now referred to Schoenoplectiella purshiana (Fernald) Lye, recorded by G.Bentham, Fl. Austral. 7: 332 (1878), but not known to occur in Australia.

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