Presl, J.S. & Presl, C.B. in Presl, C.B. [K.B.] (1828), Cyperaceae. Reliquae Haenkeanae 1(3): 196 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Scirpus atropurpureus Retz. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 296 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 125 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1883), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora: 595 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1890), Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland: 52 [secondary reference]

Moore, C. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales: 451 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1756 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 594 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 446 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus atropurpureus Retz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis atropurpurea var. setiformis Benth. legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 446 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Eleocharis ocreata (Nees) Nees ex Domin legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 296

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Eleocharis ocreata (Nees) Nees ex Domin legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1890), Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland: 52

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Eleocharis ocreata (Nees) Nees ex Domin legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 594

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Eleocharis ocreata (Nees) Nees ex Domin legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1883), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora: 595

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Eleocharis ocreata (Nees) Nees ex Domin legitimate by Moore, C. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales: 451

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Eleocharis ocreata (Nees) Nees ex Domin legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1756

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 12 [secondary reference]

Blake, S.T. (1939), A monograph of the genus Eleocharis in Australia and New Zealand. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 50(12): 125-126 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis atropurpurea var. setiformis Benth. 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): 536-537 [secondary reference]

Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 509 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis atropurpurea var. setiformis Benth. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 40 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 25 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1062, Fig. 310E [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. (10 October 1997), A synopsis of the annual species of Cyperaceae from central and southern Western Australia. Nuytsia 11(3): 408, Fig. 6 [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Cyperaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 252-253, Fig. 59 [secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Heleocharis atropurpurea Benth. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus atropurpureus Retz. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eleocharis atropurpurea (Retz.) J.Presl & C.Presl var. atropurpurea legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heleocharis atropurpurea var. setiformis Benth. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis atropurpurea var. setiformis Benth. legitimate isonym: Eleocharis atropurpurea (Retz.) Kunth isonym

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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