Buchenau, F.G.P. (1895), Studien uber die australischen Formen der Untergattung Junci genuini. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 21: 261 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 514 [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Juncus communis E.Mey. nom. illeg.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 104-105 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 183 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 482 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 80 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 80 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Juncus sarophorus L.A.S.Johnson legitimate by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 183

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 80 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Juncus usitatus L.A.S.Johnson legitimate by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 183

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 22 [secondary reference]

Pickard, J. (1984), Exotic plants on Lord Howe Island: distribution in space and time, 1853-1981. Journal of Biogeography 11: 204 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 47 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Juncaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 869 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Juncaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 74, Fig. 11C [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L., Johnson, L.A.S. & Bankoff, P. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Juncus. Flora of New South Wales 4: 279 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 424 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Juncus aridicola L.A.S.Johnson legitimate by Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 22

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Juncus aridicola L.A.S.Johnson legitimate by Pickard, J. (1984), Exotic plants on Lord Howe Island: distribution in space and time, 1853-1981. Journal of Biogeography 11: 204

Kirschner, J. (2002), Juncaceae 3: Juncus subg. Agathryon. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World 8: 130, Fig. 141, Map 526 [secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: 183 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Juncus usitatus L.A.S.Johnson legitimate by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 183

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Juncus sarophorus L.A.S.Johnson legitimate by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 183

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Juncus polyanthemos J.M.Black orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Juncus polyanthemus Buchenau var. polyanthemus legitimate

• APC Comment: Hybrids between Juncus polyanthemus and J. mollis and between J. polyanthemus and J. usitatus are recorded from NSW.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), Qld, NSW

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Juncus aridicola L.A.S.Johnson legitimate by Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 22

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Juncus aridicola L.A.S.Johnson legitimate by Pickard, J. (1984), Exotic plants on Lord Howe Island: distribution in space and time, 1853-1981. Journal of Biogeography 11: 204

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