Kunth, K.S. (1837), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 2: 205, in obs [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Blake, S.T. (1941), Notes on the Australian Cyperaceae, V. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 52(7): 55 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 159 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Latin bulbus, bulb; stylus, style; alluding to the bulb-like style-base"

Koyama, T. (1961), Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo . Section III. Botany: 100 [basionym]

basionym of: Fimbristylis subg. Bulbostylis (Kunth) T.Koyama legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 74 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 537-540 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 10 [secondary reference]

Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 510 [secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 166 [secondary reference]

• Type: Bulbostylis capillaris (L.) C.B.Clarke, typ. cons.

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 299-300 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 409 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stenophyllus Raf. nom. rej.

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1041 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 380 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 432-433 [secondary reference]

Goetghebeur, P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Cyperaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 167 [secondary reference]

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 128 [secondary reference]

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]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Fimbristylis subg. Bulbostylis (Kunth) T.Koyama legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stenophyllus Raf. nom. rej.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), LHI

Roalson, E.H., Simpson, D.A. & Larridon, I. (2018), (2618) Proposal to conserve Bulbostylis, nom. cons. (Cyperaceae) against an additional name, Nemum. Taxon 67(3): 642 [secondary reference]

• Type: "B. capillaris (L.) Kunth ex C.B. Clarke (in Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 6: 652. Sep 1893) (Scirpus capillaris L.) (typ. cons.)."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Fimbristylis subg. Bulbostylis (Kunth) T.Koyama legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stenophyllus Raf. nom. rej.

• APC Dist.: WA, AR, NT, SA, Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), LHI

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