Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 230 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(D.) v.v."

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1: 195 [basionym]

basionym of: Rhynchospora alpina (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (March 1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(73): 39 [basionym]

basionym of: Chaetospora alpina (R.Br.) F.Muell. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 381 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Rhynchospora alpina (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Chaetospora alpina (R.Br.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carpha nivicola F.Muell. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 127 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 240 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 469 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Tasmanien (R. Brown, Iter australiense 1802–05 No. 6020"

nomenclatural synonym: Rhynchospora alpina (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Chaetospora alpina (R.Br.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carpha nivicola F.Muell. legitimate

Kükenthal, G. (1939), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. VI. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis: 112-113 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Rhynchospora alpina (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Chaetospora alpina (R.Br.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carpha nivicola F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carpha tasmanica Gand. legitimate

McGillivray, D.J. (12 June 1973), Michel Gandoger's names of Australian plants. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 4(6): 334 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carpha tasmanica Gand. legitimate

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 666 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Chaetospora alpina (R.Br.) F.Muell. legitimate

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 141, Fig. 103 [secondary reference]

common name: Small flower-rush [n/a]

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

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 307 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Carpha. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 87-88, Fig. 30A [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carpha tasmanica Gand. legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 259, Fig. 55f [secondary reference]

common name: Small Flower-rush [n/a]

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]

nomenclatural synonym: Rhynchospora alpina (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Chaetospora alpina (R.Br.) F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Carpha alpina R.Br. var. alpina legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carpha novae-zelandiae Gand. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carpha tasmanica Gand. legitimate

• APC Dist.: 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: 85 [secondary reference]

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