Schrader, H.A. (1806), Flora Germanica 1: 142, t. 5, fig. 7 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Germ. Meerstrands-Binse." "In lacustribus, inundatis maritimis Duini et Monsalconii (Wulsen)."

Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. (1834), Uebersicht der Cyperaceengattungen. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 9: 292 [basionym]

basionym of: Malacochaete litoralis (Schrad.) Nees legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(72): 7 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Scirpus plumosus R.Br. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 334 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Scirpus plumosus R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Malacochaete litoralis (Schrad.) Nees legitimate misapplication: Scirpus triqueter L. legitimate by Grenier, J.C.M. & Godron, D.A. (1855), Flore de France 3(1): 373-374

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), Plants of North-Western Australia. Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 12 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 126, 143 [secondary reference]

Palla, E. (1888), Zur Kenntnis der Gattung "Scirpus". Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 10(4): 299 [basionym]

basionym of: Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla legitimate

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): 466 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Malacochaete litoralis (Schrad.) Nees legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus plumosus R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus pectinatus Roxb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Malacochaete pectinata (Roxb.) Nees legitimate misapplication: Scirpus triqueter L. legitimate by Grenier, J.C.M. & Godron, D.A. (1855), Flore de France 3(1): 373-374

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 12 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 157 [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: 497 [secondary reference]

Koyama, T. (1963), The genus Scirpus Linn.: critical species of the section Pterolepis. Canadian Journal of Botany 41(7): 1109, 1126 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 73 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla legitimate

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]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 510 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 17 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla legitimate

Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 512, Fig. 642A-D [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. (21 August 1981), A synopsis of the genus Scirpus sens. lat. (Cyperaceae) in Australia. Telopea 2(2): 160 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 45 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla legitimate

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: 894 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla legitimate

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 286 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1101 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 367 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Scirpus littoralis B.D.Jacks. orth. var.

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

misapplied to: Schoenoplectus subulatus (Vahl) Lye legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(72): 7

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Schoenoplectus subulatus (Vahl) Lye legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 334

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