Kunth, K.S. (1837), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 2: 289 [comb. nov.]

• Type: "Nepalia, Ceylona, Amboina, China, Mauritius."

basionym: Morisia wallichii Nees legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (November 1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(79): 17 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 349 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Morisia wallichii Nees legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 127 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 597 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 468 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Rhynchospora rubra (Lour.) Domin isonym

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: 207 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Rhynchospora rubra (Lour.) Makino legitimate

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 715 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Rhynchospora rubra (Lour.) Makino legitimate

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 347 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Rhynchospora rubra (Lour.) Makino legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Rhynchospora rubra (Lour.) Makino legitimate

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