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

basionym: Hypaelyptum microcephalum R.Br. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 337 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hypaelyptum microcephalum R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus leptocarpus F.Muell. legitimate

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

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

nomenclatural synonym: Hypaelyptum microcephalum R.Br. legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 468 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hypaelyptum microcephalum R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus leptocarpus F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus dietrichiae Boeckeler legitimate

Ewart, A.J. & Davies, O.B. (1917), The Flora of the Northern Territory: 53 [secondary reference]

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

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 11 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 158, Fig. 212 [secondary reference]

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: 207 [secondary reference]

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]

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): 522 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hypaelyptum microcephalum R.Br. legitimate

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 168-169, Fig. 37 [secondary reference]

common name: Button Rush [n/a]

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: 511, Fig. 641 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hypaelyptum microcephalum R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus squarrosus var. dietrichiae (Boeckeler) Benth. legitimate

Wilson, K.L. (21 August 1981), A synopsis of the genus Scirpus sens. lat. (Cyperaceae) in Australia. Telopea 2(2): 170 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Rikliella australiensis J.Raynal legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 42 [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]

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): 52 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hypaelyptum microcephalum R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus leptocarpus F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus dietrichiae Boeckeler legitimate

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 282, Fig. 41O, 42D [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hypaelyptum microcephalum R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus squarrosus var. dietrichiae (Boeckeler) Benth. legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1097, Fig. 311G [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Rikliella australiensis J.Raynal legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Rikliella australiensis J.Raynal legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 306, Fig. 62a-c [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hypaelyptum microcephalum R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rikliella australiensis J.Raynal legitimate common name: Button Rush [n/a]

Rye, B.L. (10 October 1997), A synopsis of the annual species of Cyperaceae from central and southern Western Australia. Nuytsia 11(3): 414, Fig. 13 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hypaelyptum microcephalum R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus dietrichiae Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus squarrosus var. dietrichiae (Boeckeler) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rikliella australiensis J.Raynal legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Hypaelyptum microcephalum R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Hypaelytrum microcephalum Domin orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Scirpus leptocarpus F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Scirpus leptocarpus F.Muell. isonym taxonomic synonym: Scirpus leptocarpus F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus dietrichiae Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus squarrosus var. dietrichiae (Boeckeler) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rikliella australiensis J.Raynal legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus sqarrosus var. dietrichiae A.D.Chapm. orth. var.

• 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): 20 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cyperus leptocarpus (F.Muell.) Bauters legitimate

Brown, G.K. & Bostock, P.D. (December 2020), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2019 to 2020. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2020: 12 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cyperus leptocarpus (F.Muell.) Bauters legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cyperus leptocarpus (F.Muell.) Bauters legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021. Nuytsia 33: 8 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cyperus leptocarpus (F.Muell.) Bauters legitimate

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