Gray, A. (1867), A Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Edn. 5: 567 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Scirpus capillaris L. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 322 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Isolepis capillaris (L.) Roem. & Schult. 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]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 464 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Stenophyllus capillaris (L.) Britton legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 13 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 300 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Bulbostylis densa (Wall.) Hand.-Mazz. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Bulbostylis capillaris (L.) Kunth ex C.B.Clarke legitimate

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