Blake, S.T. (1957), A new species of Gahnia from eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 68(8): 39, pl. III [tax. nov.]

• Type: "QUEENSLAND.– ... Moreton District: ... Lamington National Park, McPherson Range, upper slopes of Coomera Gorge, 3–3½ miles from Bina Burra Lodge, rather steep damp slope in Eucalyptis-Casuarina forest at about 750 m., abundant as dense grass-like undergrowth about 40 cm. thick, Jan., 1946, Blake 15926 (TYPE)"

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 15 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 23 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 340, Fig. 51A [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 24 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 326 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis thwaitesii Boeckeler legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (3 October 2014), Appendix A. Name and status changes 2013 census to 2014 census. Census of the Queensland Flora: 21 [secondary reference]

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