Kunth, K.S. (1837), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 2: 319 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Nova Hollandia."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (24 October 1854), Second general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the Colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 16 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(73): 27 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 399 [secondary reference]

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

Kükenthal, G. (1941), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. XI. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 50: 122 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 501 [secondary reference]

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

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 313-314 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Lepidosperma. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 127 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 269 [secondary reference]

common name: Stiff Rapier-sedge [n/a]

Barrett, R.L. & Wilson, K.L. (2012), A review of the genus Lepidosperma Labill. (Cyperaceae: Schoeneae). Australian Systematic Botany 25: 268, Fig. 64 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here designated):NEWSOUTH WALES: Sydney district, 1823, Sieber [Agrostotheca No. 49] (lecto: P 00644964; isolecto:B 10 0277899 (fragment),BM000796271,G (3 sheets), K, L 0042638, L 0042639, L 0042640, LD, MEL 2201943, P 00644965, P 00644966).

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

nomenclatural synonym: Lepidosperma neesii Kunth var. neesii legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lepidosperma tetragonum Nees ex Kunth nom. inval., pro syn. pro parte misapplication: Lepidosperma canescens Boeckeler legitimate by Jessop, J.P. & Weber, J.Z. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Cyperaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 2040

• APC Dist.: SA, NSW, Vic, Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 87 [secondary reference]

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