Kunth, K.S. (May 1841), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 3: 567-568 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Eriocaulon e Madagascaria Willd. herb. n. 2370. – Madagascaria. (Chapelier.)"

• Text: non Raf. (1840).

Moldenke, H.N. (1968), Additional notes on the Eriocaulaceae. XVII. Phytologia 18(1): 44 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Eriocaulon willdenovianum Moldenke legitimate

Moldenke, H.N. (15 April 1970), Additional notes on the Eriocaulaceae. XXIX. Phytologia 19(7): 492 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eriocaulon willdenovianum Moldenke legitimate

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 29 [secondary reference]

Leach, G.J. (12 October 1989), Eriocaulon longifolium Nees ex Kunth (Eriocaulaceae), a new record for Australia. Austrobaileya 3(1): 159 [secondary reference]

Leach, G.J. (13 September 2017), A revision of Australian Eriocaulon (Eriocaulaceae). Telopea 20: 252 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eriocaulon willdenovianum Moldenke legitimate

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