Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1846), Cyperaceae. Plantae Preissianae 2(1): 92 [tax. nov.]

• Type: In Australia occidentali, Apr. a. 1839. Herb. Preiss. No. 1788. – In solo arenoso planitiei ad flumen Cygnorum supra oppidulum Perth, Aug. a. 1840. No. 1787.

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

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 397 [secondary reference]

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: 119 [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: 889 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Lepidosperma scabrum Nees var. scabrum legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lepidosperma scabrum var. effusum Benth. legitimate

• 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, 194-195, photos 9-12 [secondary reference]

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

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