Clarke, C.B. (1908), New genera and species of Cyperaceae. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information. Additional Series 8: 47 [tax. nov.]

• Type: AUSTRALIA. Swan River, Drummond, n. 330 (hb. DC.).

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 479 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 14 [secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. (1941), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. XI. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 50: 124-125 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. (March 1980), Notes on some Australian species of Cyperaceae. Telopea 1(6): 465 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Tricostularia neesii Lehm. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Tricostularia neesii Lehm. legitimate

Barrett, R.L. & Wilson, K.L. (2012), A review of the genus Lepidosperma Labill. (Cyperaceae: Schoeneae). Australian Systematic Botany 25: 287 [basionym]

basionym of: Tricostularia exsul (C.B.Clarke) K.L.Wilson & R.L.Barrett legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Tricostularia exsul (C.B.Clarke) K.L.Wilson & R.L.Barrett legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Biggs, L.J. (1 May 2014), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2013. Nuytsia 24: 58 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tricostularia exsul (C.B.Clarke) K.L.Wilson & R.L.Barrett legitimate

Barrett, R.L., Bruhl, J.J. & Wilson, K.L. (16 April 2021), Revision of generic concepts in Schoeneae subtribe Tricostulariinae (Cyperaceae) with a new Australian genus Ammothryon and new species of Tricostularia. Telopea 24: 123 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Swan River [colony], 1845, J. Drummond 330 (lectotype (here designated): G-DC 00195302; isolecto: B 10 0277894 (fragment), G-DC 00195301, G-DC 00195303, K 000960117, K (ex TCD); P; TCD, n.v.)."

Barrett, R.L., Bruhl, J.J. & Wilson, K.L. (16 April 2021), Revision of generic concepts in Schoeneae subtribe Tricostulariinae (Cyperaceae) with a new Australian genus Ammothryon and new species of Tricostularia. Telopea 24: 123 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tricostularia exsul (C.B.Clarke) K.L.Wilson & R.L.Barrett legitimate

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