Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 236 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(D.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (24 October 1854), Second general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the Colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 4, 16 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 93 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 346 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Oreobolus distichus F.Muell. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 127 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 245 [secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. (1940), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. VIII. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 48: 66-68 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Oreobolus distichus F.Muell. legitimate

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 90, Fig. 86B. [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 687-688 [secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 142-143, Fig. 106-8 [secondary reference]

common name: Alpine tuft-rush [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 16 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Oreobolus. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 109 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Comment: Infraspecific rank not recognised in NSW.
• APC Dist.: NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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