Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (1817), Systema Vegetabilium 2: 155 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Scirpus spiralis Rottb. legitimate

• Comment: This combination is sometimes attributed to R.Brown, Prodr. 224 (1810). Brown lists Scirpus spiralis Rottb. 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).

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 293 [secondary reference]

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

Bailey, F.M. (1883), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora: 594 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 211 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1890), Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland: 52 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1754 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 591 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 445-446 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus spiralis Rottb. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Limnochloa spiralis (Rottb.) Nees legitimate

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

misapplied to: Eleocharis cylindrostachys Boeckeler legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 293

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Eleocharis cylindrostachys Boeckeler legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 125

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Eleocharis cylindrostachys Boeckeler legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1883), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora: 594

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Eleocharis cylindrostachys Boeckeler legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 211

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Eleocharis cylindrostachys Boeckeler legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1890), Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland: 52

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 488 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Eleocharis cylindrostachys Boeckeler legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1754

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

misapplied to: Eleocharis cylindrostachys Boeckeler 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): 97-98 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus spiralis Rottb. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Limnochloa spiralis (Rottb.) Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis compacta R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus compactus Spreng. nom. illeg. pro parte misapplication: Eleocharis variegata (Poir.) C.Presl legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 293

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: 204 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis compacta R.Br. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 225 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 527 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 40 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis compacta R.Br. legitimate

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: 292, Fig. 42R [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus spiralis Rottb. legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1063-1064, Fig. 310K [secondary reference]

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: 258, Fig. 58 [secondary reference]

Rosen, D.J., Hatch, S.L. & Carter, R. (2008), Taxonomy and nomenclature of three closely related species of Eleocharis subgenus Limnochloa (Cyperaceae). Blumea 53: 242-243, Map 3 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus spiralis Rottb. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Limnochloa spiralis (Rottb.) Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis compacta R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus compactus Spreng. nom. illeg. misapplication: Eleocharis austro-caledonica Vieill. legitimate by Svenson, H.K. (1939), Monographic studies in the genus Eleocharis V. Rhodora 41: 41

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

taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis compacta R.Br. legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Heleocharis spiralis Roem. & Schult. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus spiralis Rottb. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Limnochloa spiralis (Rottb.) Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleocharis compacta R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus compacta Poir. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Scirpus compactus Poir. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Scirpus compactus Spreng. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Heleocharis compacta F.Muell. orth. var. pro parte misapplication: Eleocharis variegata (Poir.) C.Presl legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 293 misapplication: Eleocharis austro-caledonica Vieill. legitimate by Svenson, H.K. (1939), Monographic studies in the genus Eleocharis V. Rhodora 41: 41

• APC Comment: A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2601 (1991) stated that Poiret did not validly make the combination Scirpus compactus. 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, Qld

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