Boeckeler, J.O. (1875), Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Cyperaceen-Flora Neuholland's und einiger polynesischer Inseln. Flora: oder Allgemeine Botanischer Zeitung 58(7): 108 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Queensland, Brisbane River (Am. D.)"

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(80): 192 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 294 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 125 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 594 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 448-449 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Eleocharis obtusa (Willd.) Schult. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (September 1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(69): 240 misapplication: Eleocharis spiralis (Rottb.) Roem. & Schult. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 293 misapplication: Eleocharis spiralis (Rottb.) Roem. & Schult. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 125 misapplication: Eleocharis spiralis (Rottb.) Roem. & Schult. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1883), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora: 594 misapplication: Eleocharis spiralis (Rottb.) Roem. & Schult. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 211 misapplication: Eleocharis spiralis (Rottb.) Roem. & Schult. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1890), Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland: 52 misapplication: Eleocharis spiralis (Rottb.) Roem. & Schult. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1754 misapplication: Eleocharis spiralis (Rottb.) Roem. & Schult. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 591

Blake, S.T. (1939), A monograph of the genus Eleocharis in Australia and New Zealand. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 50(12): 121 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Eleocharis obtusa (Willd.) Schult. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (September 1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(69): 240

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 494 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 164 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 14 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 292, Fig. 42V [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 375 [secondary reference]

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

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

orthographic variant: Heleocharis cylindrostachys Boeckeler orth. var. misapplication: Eleocharis obtusa (Willd.) Schult. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (September 1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(69): 240

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

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