Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (23 October 1811), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 2(1): 252 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Chaetospora sphaerocephala R.Br. legitimate

Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (1817), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 2: 77 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 128, 143 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 240 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Mesomelaena sphaerocephala (R.Br.) Benth. legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 480 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Hook.f. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 91 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Hook.f. legitimate

Kükenthal, G. (1940), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. VIII. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 48: 59 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Hook.f. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Hook.f. legitimate

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