Hooker, J.D. (5 December 1853), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae 1(4): 278 [tax. nov.]

Hooker, J.D. (1864), Handbook of the New Zealand Flora 1: 306 [basionym]

basionym of: Gahnia xanthocarpa (Hook.f.) Hook.f. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (November 1875), Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants 1: 13 [basionym]

basionym of: Cladium xanthocarpum (Hook.f.) F.Muell. legitimate

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 755 [basionym]

basionym of: Mariscus xanthocarpus (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

Kükenthal, G. (1943), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae XIII. Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 52(1): 70 [basionym]

basionym of: Gahnia setifolia var. xanthocarpa (Hook.f.) Kük. legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 439 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gahnia xanthocarpa (Hook.f.) Hook.f. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Gahnia xanthocarpa (Hook.f.) Hook.f. legitimate

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