Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 239 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 419-420 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eurostorhiza Steud. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 129 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eurostorhiza Steud. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 600 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 96 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek kaustos, burnt, scorched: from the appearance of the sheathing bases."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 164 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek kaustos, burnt, scorched; from the appearance of the sheathing bases"

Kükenthal, G. (1944), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae XIV. Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 53(2): 85-100 [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: 503 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 11 [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), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 876 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 338 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 320 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Caustis. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 137 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 278-279 [secondary reference]

Goetghebeur, P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Cyperaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 180 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 268 [secondary reference]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 161 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Eurostorhiza Steud. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

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