Boeckeler, J.O. (1875), Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Cyperaceen-Flora Neuholland's und einiger polynesischer Inseln. Flora: oder Allgemeine Botanischer Zeitung 58(7): 120 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Port Mackay. Nov. Holland. (Am. D.) ... Herb. Luerssen."

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 428 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Scleria laxa R.Br. legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 488 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Scleria laxa R.Br. legitimate

Blake, S.T. (1947), Notes on Australian Cyperaceae, VII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 58(2): 48 [secondary reference]

• Type: "QUEENSLAND – South Kennedy District: Port Mackay, Am. Deitrich 725 (B; TYPE)."

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 208 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1961), Florae Malesianae Precursores XXX. The genus Scleria in Malaysia. Blumea 11(1): 201-202 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 226 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 746 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 44 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 27 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 350, Fig. 52D [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1104-1105 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 303 [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Cyperaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 276, Fig. 60, 66 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 569 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Scleria novo-hollandiae B.Hyland orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Scleria merrillii Palla legitimate pro parte misapplication: Scleria laxa R.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 16 pro parte misapplication: Scleria laxa R.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 44

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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