Hooker, J.D. (3 September 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(7): 91, t. 146A [tax. nov.]

• Type: "New Norfolk, Oldfield."

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 389 [secondary reference]

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

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 246 [basionym]

basionym of: Lepidosperma elatius var. oldfieldii (Hook.f.) Rodway legitimate

Kükenthal, G. (1941), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. X. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 50: 35-36 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Lepidosperma elatius var. oldfieldii (Hook.f.) Rodway legitimate

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Lepidosperma. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 125, Fig. 30K [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Lepidosperma elatius var. oldfieldii (Hook.f.) Rodway legitimate

Barrett, R.L. & Wilson, K.L. (2012), A review of the genus Lepidosperma Labill. (Cyperaceae: Schoeneae). Australian Systematic Botany 25: 269, Fig. 67 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Lepidosperma elatius var. oldfieldii (Hook.f.) Rodway legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Lepidosperma elatius var. oldfieldii (Hook.f.) Rodway legitimate

• APC Dist.: 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]

nomenclatural synonym: Lepidosperma elatius var. oldfieldii (Hook.f.) Rodway legitimate

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