Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1816), Flore d'Oware et de Benin en Afrique 2(15): 48, t. 86, fig. 2 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. legitimate

Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Meyen, F.J.F. (ed.) (1843), Observationes Botanicas: 55 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 416 [secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae. Das Pflanzenreich 101: 367 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 492 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 649 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. legitimate

Koyama, T. (1977), The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore 30: 149-150 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus polystachyos var. laxiflorus Benth. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 13 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperacee - Cyperus, Lepidosperma, Baumea. Flora of Central Australia: 506 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. legitimate

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 449-450 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 355 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 431 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. legitimate misapplication: Cyperus congestus Vahl legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1904), The Flora of Norfolk Island. Part i. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(4): 724 misapplication: Cyperus congestus Vahl legitimate by Laing, R.M. (1915), A revised list of the Norfolk Island flora, with some notes on the species. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 47: 18 misapplication: Cyperus congestus Vahl legitimate by Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae. Das Pflanzenreich 101: 445

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 24 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 304 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Pycreus polystachyus Domin orth. var.

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. legitimate

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