Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 387 [tax. nov.]

• Type: W. Australia. Drummond, n. 273, 275; King George's Sound and adjoining coast, Muir and others; Blackwood River, Oldfield and others.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 128 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 13 [secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. (1941), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. X. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 50: 29-30 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 42 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 888 [secondary reference]

common name: Spreading Sword-sedge [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 281 [secondary reference]

common name: Spreading Sword-sedge [n/a]

Barrett, R.L. & Wilson, K.L. (2012), A review of the genus Lepidosperma Labill. (Cyperaceae: Schoeneae). Australian Systematic Botany 25: 247-248, Fig. 28 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here designated): WESTERN AUSTRALIA: banks of the Blackwood River, Oldfield (lecto: K).

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

• APC Dist.: WA

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 192 [secondary reference]

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