Brown, R. (1818), Narrative of an Expedition to the Congo Appendix: 459 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Lipocarpha argentea (Vahl) R.Br., nom. illeg.

Kunth, K.S. (1837), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 2: 268 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 336 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 126 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hypaelyptum Vahl nom. rej.

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 597 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 94 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek liparos, shining; karphos, chaff: alluding to the silvery glumes of L. argentea."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 158 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek liparos, shining; karphos, chaff; alluding to the silvery glumes of some species"

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 497 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 519-522 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 16 [secondary reference]

Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 510-511 [secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 165 [secondary reference]

Goetghebeur, P. & Van den Borre, A. (1989), Studies in Cyperaceae 8. A revision of Lipocarpha, including Hemicarpha and Rikliella. Wageningen Agricultural University Papers 89(1): 1-87 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hypaelyptum Vahl nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Hemicarpha Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rikliella J.Raynal legitimate

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 282 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 202, 373 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hemicarpha Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rikliella J.Raynal legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1097 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 357 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 306 [secondary reference]

Goetghebeur, P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Cyperaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 172-173 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 494 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Hypaelytrum Domin orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Hypaelyptum Vahl nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Hemicarpha Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rikliella J.Raynal legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

Bauters, K., Larridon, I., Reynders, M., Asselman, P., Vrijdaghs, A., Muasya, A.M., Simpson, D.A. & Goetghebeur, P. (2014), A new classification for Lipocarpha and Volkiella as infrageneric taxa of Cyperus s.l. (Cypereae, Cyperoideae, Cyperaceae): insights from species tree reconstruction supplemented with morphological and floral developmental data. Phytotaxa 166(1): 17 [basionym]

basionym of: Cyperus sect. Lipocarpha (R.Br.) Bauters legitimate

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