Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants: 32 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Along the rivulets and streams of the lower part of the Australian Alps; for instance, at Mount Linster, Omeo, and Gibbo Creek, Snowy River, &c."

• Comment: See paper by O.Seberg, Taxon 35: 262-271 (1986), which discusses the date of publication of Mueller's preprint.

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 333-334 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 335 [secondary reference]

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]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 81 [secondary reference]

common name: Large-head Club-rush [n/a]

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

Wilson, K.L. (21 August 1981), A synopsis of the genus Scirpus sens. lat. (Cyperaceae) in Australia. Telopea 2(2): 156 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Lake Omeo, Mueller 1.1854 (MEL)"

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 282-283 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 370 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 325-326, Fig. 62f-g [secondary reference]

common name: Large-head Club-rush [n/a]

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

orthographic variant: Scirpus polystachyos F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus polystachyus F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud. isonym: Scirpus polystachyus F.Muell. isonym

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

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