Blake, S.T. (1943), Notes on Australian Cyperaceae, VI. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 54(8): 71 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "On Moreton Island near the Big Sandhills, on hillside on sand, in mixed open forest, September 11th, 1938, Blake 13845 (TYPE);"

Kükenthal, G. (1944), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae XIV. Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 53(2): 94-95 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 64 [secondary reference]

common name: Foxtails [n/a] common name: Curlywigs [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 11 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 338-339, Fig. 51G [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 321, pl. 22 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Johnston, M.E., Swarbrick, J.T., Wearing, A.H. & Webber, J.H. (20 February 1997), A new subspecies of Caustis blakei Kuk. in Queensland. Austrobaileya 4(4): 615 [secondary reference]

Jessup, L.W. (2005), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 3 Changes to names or status of taxa: [unnumbered page] [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Caustis blakei subsp. macrantha M.E.Johnst. & J.H.Webber legitimate by Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 338-339, Fig. 51G

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

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