Clarke, C.B. in Hooker, J.D. (September 1893), Cyperaceae. The Flora of British India 6(19): 596 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Cyperus pygmaeus Rottb. legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 419 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cyperus pygmaeus Rottb. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cyperus michelianus subsp. pygmaeus (Rottb.) Asch. & Graebn. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 42 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus pygmaeus Rottb. legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1056 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus pygmaeus Rottb. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus pygmaeus Rottb. legitimate

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