Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 237 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Schoenus filum Labill. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 20 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 92 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 409 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Schoenus filum Labill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Baumea longifolia Boeckeler legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 413 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Gahnia trifida Labill. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 129, 143 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 249 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 95 [secondary reference]

Benl, G. (1940), Die Systematik der Gattung Gahnia Forst. Botanisches Archiv: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Botanik 40: 230 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Gahnia trifida Labill. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 165 [secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. (1943), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae XIII. Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 52(1): 100 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Gahnia radula (R.Br.) Benth. legitimate

Kükenthal, G. (1943), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae XIII. Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 52(1): 104 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gahnia filum (Labill.) F.Muell. legitimate

Kükenthal, G. (1943), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae XIII. Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 52(1): 102 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Gahnia trifida Labill. legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 75 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Schoenus filum Labill. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Gahnia filum (Labill.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Baumea longifolia Boeckeler legitimate

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Gahnia. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 136 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gahnia filum (Labill.) F.Muell. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Gahnia filum (Labill.) F.Muell. legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 85 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gahnia filum (Labill.) F.Muell. legitimate

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