Hooker, J.D. (3 September 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(7): 81, t. 141 A [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Dry sandy banks: near Hospital Bay, South Huon River, Oldfield."

• Comment: nom. illeg., non Nees (1834).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(73): 34 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Chaetospora capillaris F.Muell. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 377 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Elynanthus capillaceus Benth. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 240 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Elynanthus capillaceus Benth. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Cheeseman, T.F. (1906), Cyperaceae. Manual of the New Zealand Flora Edn. 1: 789 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Cladium capillaceum C.B.Clarke nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Fernald, M.L. (1923), Nomenclatorial transfers in Mariscus. Rhodora 25: 52 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Mariscus capillaceus Fernald legitimate

Black, J.M. (1934), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 32. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 169 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tetraria capillaris (F.Muell.) J.M.Black legitimate

Kükenthal, G. (1942), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. XIII. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 51: 182 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cladium capillaceum C.B.Clarke nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 153 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tetraria capillaris (F.Muell.) J.M.Black legitimate

Koyama, T. (1956), Taxonomic Study of Cyperaceae V. Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 69: 63 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Machaerina capillacea T.Koyama nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Tetraria capillaris (F.Muell.) J.M.Black legitimate

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Tetraria. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 132 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tetraria capillaris (F.Muell.) J.M.Black legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tetraria capillaris (F.Muell.) J.M.Black legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 85 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tetraria capillaris (F.Muell.) J.M.Black legitimate

Barrett, R.L., Bruhl, J.J. & Wilson, K.L. (25 March 2021), Netrostylis, a new genus of Australasian Cyperaceae removed from Tetraria. Telopea 24: 57 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Australia: Tasmania: Dry sandy banks by the Kermandie [River], Hospital Bay, south Huon River, [1850s], A.F. Oldfield 145 (holo: K 000960101!)."

Barrett, R.L., Bruhl, J.J. & Wilson, K.L. (25 March 2021), Netrostylis, a new genus of Australasian Cyperaceae removed from Tetraria. Telopea 24: 57 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Netrostylis capillaris (F.Muell.) R.L.Barrett, J.J.Bruhl & K.L.Wilson legitimate

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