Blake, S.T. (1939), A monograph of the genus Eleocharis in Australia and New Zealand. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 50(12): 99, t. vii [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Queensland. – Moreton District; Stradbroke Island, in Lake Karboorah, submerged to 2 ft., or on marshy ground at the brink, alt. 120ft., Jan., 1938, Blake 13203. (TYPE in B.)"

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 291, Fig. 42U [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym of: Eleocharis ochrostachys Steud. legitimate

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