Desvaux, É.É. in Gay, C. (1854), Historia Fisica y Politica de Chile ... Botanica [Flora Chilena] 6: 174 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "La he visto en el herbario de Berlin traida del sur de Chile por el se~2or Chamisso y por el se~2or Philippi."

Blake, S.T. (1939), A monograph of the genus Eleocharis in Australia and New Zealand. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 50(12): 110-111 [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: 493 [secondary reference]

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

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 374 [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 pachycarpa É.Desv. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised)

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