Bentham, G. (June 1877), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 13(1): 5-6 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Exocarya scleroides (F.Muell.) Benth.

• Comment: Genus also described by Boeckeler in Flora 61 (Mar. 1878) 142, based on the same type.

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 339 [secondary reference]

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]

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

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 279 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 296-297 [secondary reference]

Goetghebeur, P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Cyperaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 160 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 330 [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]

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

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