Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 220 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Kunth, K.S. (1837), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 2: 268 [basionym]

basionym of: Lipocarpha microcephala (R.Br.) Kunth legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 337 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Lipocarpha microcephala (R.Br.) Kunth legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Lipocarpha microcephala (R.Br.) Kunth legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Lipocarpha microcephala (R.Br.) Kunth legitimate

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 522 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Lipocarpha microcephala (R.Br.) Kunth legitimate

Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 511 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Lipocarpha microcephala (R.Br.) Kunth legitimate

Wilson, K.L. (21 August 1981), A synopsis of the genus Scirpus sens. lat. (Cyperaceae) in Australia. Telopea 2(2): 170 [secondary reference]

Goetghebeur, P. & Van den Borre, A. (1989), Studies in Cyperaceae 8. A revision of Lipocarpha, including Hemicarpha and Rikliella. Wageningen Agricultural University Papers 89(1): 52 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Lipocarpha microcephala (R.Br.) Kunth legitimate

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 282 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Lipocarpha microcephala (R.Br.) Kunth legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 306 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Lipocarpha microcephala (R.Br.) Kunth legitimate

Rye, B.L. (10 October 1997), A synopsis of the annual species of Cyperaceae from central and southern Western Australia. Nuytsia 11(3): 414 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Lipocarpha microcephala (R.Br.) Kunth legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Hypaelytrum microcephalum Domin orth. var.

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Lipocarpha microcephala (R.Br.) Kunth legitimate

Bauters, K., Larridon, I., Reynders, M., Asselman, P., Vrijdaghs, A., Muasya, A.M., Simpson, D.A. & Goetghebeur, P. (2014), A new classification for Lipocarpha and Volkiella as infrageneric taxa of Cyperus s.l. (Cypereae, Cyperoideae, Cyperaceae): insights from species tree reconstruction supplemented with morphological and floral developmental data. Phytotaxa 166(1): 20 [secondary reference]

• Type: "AUSTRALIA. Arnhem Bay Point, 6 February 1803, R. Brown 5986 (holotype BM000990979!)."

Bauters, K., Larridon, I., Reynders, M., Asselman, P., Vrijdaghs, A., Muasya, A.M., Simpson, D.A. & Goetghebeur, P. (2014), A new classification for Lipocarpha and Volkiella as infrageneric taxa of Cyperus s.l. (Cypereae, Cyperoideae, Cyperaceae): insights from species tree reconstruction supplemented with morphological and floral developmental data. Phytotaxa 166(1): 20 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cyperus leptocarpus (F.Muell.) Bauters legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cyperus leptocarpus (F.Muell.) Bauters legitimate

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