Vahl, M.(H.) (1805), Enumeratio Plantarum 2: 287 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Scirpus dichotomus L. legitimate

Steudel, E.G. von (1855), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 2(8-9): 110 [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xlviii [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (1864), Handbook of the New Zealand Flora 1: 303 [secondary reference]

Boeckeler, J.O. (February 1871), Die Cyperaceen des Koniglichen Herbariums zu Berlin. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 37(1): 12 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (November 1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(79): 10 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 310 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis parviflora R.Br. legitimate

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

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 594 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 455 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus dichotomus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus bisumbellatus Forssk. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis parviflora R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus pallescens Roxb. legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 495 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 74 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus dichotomus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis diphylla (Retz.) Vahl legitimate

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 86, Fig. 82. [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 575-576 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis diphylla (Retz.) Vahl legitimate

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 167 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Fringe-rush [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 14 [secondary reference]

Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 500-501 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus dichotomus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis diphylla (Retz.) Vahl legitimate common name: Eight day grass [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 41 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 25 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 298, Fig. 43K [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus dichotomus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis diphylla (Retz.) Vahl legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1075, Fig. 315G [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 378 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 303 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 332 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Fringe-rush [n/a]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Cyperaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 265, Fig. 60, 61 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Fimbristylis dichotomum Vahl orth. var. orthographic variant: Fimbristylis dichotma W.E.Cooper orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus dichotomus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Fimbristylis dichotoma (L.) Vahl var. dichotoma legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Fimbristylis dichotoma (L.) Vahl f. dichotoma legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Fimbristylis dichotoma (L.) Vahl subsp. dichotoma legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus diphylla Retz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis laxa Vahl legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis diphyllum Vahl orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis diphylla (Retz.) Vahl legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis variabilis R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis stricta R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis gracilis R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis elongata R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus variabilis (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus stricta Poir. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Scirpus strictus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus gracilis (R.Br.) Poir. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Scirpus elongata Poir. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Scirpus elongatus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis striata Labill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis royeniana Nees nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis communis Kunth nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis polymorpha Boeckeler nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis obtusifolia Nees ex Benth. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis tristachya Nees ex Benth. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis gracilis Nees ex Benth. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis diphylla var. gracilis (R.Br.) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis diphylla (Retz.) Vahl var. diphylla legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus gracilis (R.Br.) Kuntze nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis diphylla f. subpubescens Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis diphylla var. polystachya Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis diphylla f. glabra Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis diphylla f. coarctata Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis diphylla (Retz.) Vahl f. diphylla legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis annua var. diphylla (Retz.) Kük. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis dichotoma var. B [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

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

misapplied to: Fimbristylis velata R.Br. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (1864), Handbook of the New Zealand Flora 1: 303

Brown, G.K. (December 2021), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2020 to 2021. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2021: 9 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis sp. (Elizabeth Springs R.J.Fensham 3743) [n/a]

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