Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1805), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 1(2-4): 14 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Lepidosperma elatior Labill.

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Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 96 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek lepis, lepidos, a scale; sperma, seed: alluding to the hypogynous scales surrounding the nut."

Kükenthal, G. (1941), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. XI. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 50: 112-128 [secondary reference]

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• Etymology: "Greek lepis, pelidos, a scale; sperma, seed; alluding to the hypogynous scales surrounding the nut"

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 500, Fig. 59L [secondary reference]

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Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 331 [secondary reference]

common name: Swordsedges [n/a]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 308 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Lepidosperma. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 120-121 [secondary reference]

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Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 481 [secondary reference]

Barrett, R.L. & Wilson, K.L. (2012), A review of the genus Lepidosperma Labill. (Cyperaceae: Schoeneae). Australian Systematic Botany 25: 231 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Lepidotosperma Roem. & Schult. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Lepidosperma Labill. ser. Lepidosperma legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Lepidosperma Labill. subsect. Lepidosperma legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Lepidosperma Labill. subg. Lepidosperma legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Lepidosperma Labill. sect. Lepidosperma legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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