Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (1817), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 2: 150 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Scirpus geniculatus L. legitimate

• Comment: This combination is sometimes attributed to R.Brown, Prodr. 224 (1810). Brown lists Scirpus geniculatus L. as belonging to his new genus Eleocharis but does not definitely associate the genus and species names as required by ICN Art. 35.2 (Melbourne Code, 2012).

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

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus geniculatus L. 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): 124-125 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis capitata (L.) R.Br. legitimate

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]

taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis capitata (L.) R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis caribaea (Rottb.) S.F.Blake legitimate

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 536 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis caribaea (Rottb.) S.F.Blake legitimate

Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 509 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis capitata (L.) R.Br. legitimate

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. 42F [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus geniculatus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis caribaea (Rottb.) S.F.Blake legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1063, Fig. 310I [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 376 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis caribaea (Rottb.) S.F.Blake legitimate

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]

Rye, B.L. (10 October 1997), A synopsis of the annual species of Cyperaceae from central and southern Western Australia. Nuytsia 11(3): 408, Fig. 6B (map) [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus geniculatus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus caribaeus Rottb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis capitata (L.) R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis caribaea (Rottb.) S.F.Blake legitimate

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: 255, Fig. 59 [secondary reference]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus geniculatus L. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis capitata (L.) R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis caribaea (Rottb.) S.F.Blake legitimate

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Heleocharis geniculata Domin legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus geniculatus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus capitatus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus caribaeus Rottb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis capitata (L.) R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleogenus capitatus Nees nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Eleogenus capitatus (L.) Nees ex Mart. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heleocharis capitata F.Muell. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis caribaea (Rottb.) S.F.Blake legitimate doubtful taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis setacea R.Br. legitimate doubtful taxonomic synonym: Scirpus setacea Poir. orth. var. doubtful taxonomic synonym: Scirpus setaceus Poir. nom. illeg. doubtful taxonomic synonym: Scirpus brownii Spreng. legitimate misapplication: Eleocharis gracilis R.Br. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 12 misapplication: Eleocharis gracilis R.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 14

• APC Comment: R.Brown, Prodr. 224 (1810), indicates but does not validly make the combination Eleocharis geniculata. A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2607 (1991) stated that Poiret did not validly make the combination Scirpus setaceus. However, under Article 33.1 of the 2006 (Vienna) edition of the ICBN, this name is considered to be validly published.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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