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• Type: (not designated).

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Nooteboom, H.P. (19 February 1979), A taxonomic revision of the Malesian and Australian species of Uncinia (Cyperaceae). Blumea 24(2): 511-520 [secondary reference]

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Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 383 [secondary reference]

common name: Hook-sedge [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Uncinia. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 139-140 [secondary reference]

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Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 886 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: NSW (native and naturalised), LHI, ACT, Vic, Tas, MI

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Carex L. legitimate

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