Cyperaceae Juss.
Eleocharis dulcis (Burm.f.) Trin. ex Hensch. , legitimate, scientific
Henschel, A.W.E.T. (1833), Vita C.E. Rumphii Plinii Indici: 186 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Andropogon dulcis Burm.f. legitimate
Blake, S.T. (1939), A monograph of the genus Eleocharis in Australia and New Zealand. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 50(12): 103-104 [secondary reference]
Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 320 [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: 203 [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): 225 BHL [secondary reference]
Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 529-531 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis equisetina J.Presl & C.Presl legitimate
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 14 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 40 [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 25 [secondary reference]
Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 290, Fig. 42H [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon dulcis Burm.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis tuberosa Schult. legitimate common name: Chinese Water Chestnut [n/a]
Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1062-1063, Fig. 310H [secondary reference]
common name: Chinese Water Chestnut [n/a]
Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 373, pl. 24 [secondary reference]
Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 206 [secondary reference]
common name: Chinese Water Chestnut [n/a]
  • Vernacular: bilgin (Bardi)
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: 253-255, Fig. 3, 53, 58 [secondary reference]
common name: Water Chestnut [n/a]
National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]
Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]
common name: Chinese Water Chestnut [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Elaeocharis dulcis Hensch. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon dulce Burm.f. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon dulcis Burm.f. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eleocharis dulcis (Burm.f.) Trin. ex Hensch. var. dulcis legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus plantaginoides Rottb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus tuberosus Roxb. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis tuberosa Schult. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis esculenta Vieill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis plantaginoidea W.Wight orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis plantaginoides (Rottb.) W.Wight legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heleocharis plantaginoides Domin orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis plantaginoides (Rottb.) Domin isonym taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis dulcis var. tuberosa (Schult.) T.Koyama legitimate doubtful taxonomic synonym: Scirpus plantagineus Retz. legitimate doubtful taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis plantaginea (Retz.) Roem. & Schult. legitimate
  • APC Comment: R.Brown, Prodr. 224 (1810), indicates but does not validly make the combination Eleocharis plantaginea.
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW