Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 397 [tax. nov.]

• Type: W. Australia, Drummond, n. 352, 892; Kalgan River, F.Mueller; Forest Hill, Muir; Tone River, Oldfield; Blackwood River, Miss Hexter.

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: 14 [secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. (1941), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. XI. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 50: 117 [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: 888-889 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 282-283 [secondary reference]

Barrett, R.L. & Wilson, K.L. (2012), A review of the genus Lepidosperma Labill. (Cyperaceae: Schoeneae). Australian Systematic Botany 25: 263-264, Fig. 57 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here designated): WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Forest Hill, Muir (lecto: K; isolecto: MEL 515281).

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

nomenclatural synonym: Lepidosperma leptostachyum Benth. var. leptostachyum legitimate misapplication: Lepidosperma canescens Boeckeler legitimate by Beard, J.S. in Beard, J.S. (ed.) (1970), Descriptive Catalogue of West Australian Plants Edn. 2: 21 misapplication: Lepidosperma canescens Boeckeler legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 15

• 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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