Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 228 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) B. v.s."

Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1 November 1817), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 5(1): 99 [basionym]

basionym of: Scirpus furvus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 318 [secondary reference]

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

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 753 [basionym]

basionym of: Iria furva (R.Br.) Kuntze 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): 460 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus furvus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

Kern, J.H. (1955), Florae Malesianae Precursores X. Notes on Malaysian and some S.E.Asian Cyperaceae III. Blumea 8(1): 121 [secondary reference]

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 320 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 205 [secondary reference]

Blake, S.T. (1969), Studies in Cyperaceae. Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium 8: 9-10 [secondary reference]

• Type: as "Queensland, Booby Island and Endeavour River, Banks & Solander (BM, holo – fragment and photo BRI; MEL, BRI)."

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis capitata R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Iria capitata (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 225 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 562 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Iria furva (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis capitata R.Br. legitimate

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

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

Latz, P.K. (30 May 1990), Taxonomic studies of Fimbristylis (Cyperaceae) in Northern Australia. Nuytsia 7(2): 169, 171 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis allenii Turrill legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus capitatus Poir. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus furvus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus furva Poir. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Iriha furva Kuntze orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Iria furva (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis capitata R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus capitata Poir. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Rhynchospora anomala Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Iriha capitata Kuntze orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Iria capitata (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis allenii Turrill legitimate

• APC Comment: A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index (1991) stated that Poiret did not validly make the combinations Scirpus capitatus (p. 2602) and S. furvus (p. 2604). However, under Article 33.1 of the 2006 (Vienna) edition of the ICBN, these names are considered to be validly published.
• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

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