Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 241 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(D.) v.v."

Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (24 September 1813), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 3(1): 282 [basionym]

basionym of: Carex compacta (R.Br.) Poir. nom. illeg.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1861), Sixth Systematic Index of the Plants indigenous to the Colony of Victoria. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 18 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 93 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 434 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Carex compacta (R.Br.) Poir. nom. illeg.

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 251 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Uncinia nervosa Boott legitimate

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1909), Cyperaceae - Caricoideae. Das Pflanzenreich 38: 65 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Carex compacta (R.Br.) Poir. nom. illeg.

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 145 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. & Nooteboom, H.P. (1979), Cyperaceae — II. Flora Malesiana Series I 9(1): 184 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Uncinia rupestris Raoul legitimate

Nooteboom, H.P. (19 February 1979), A taxonomic revision of the Malesian and Australian species of Uncinia (Cyperaceae). Blumea 24(2): 515-518 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "R. Brown (BM; iso in K, P), Tasmania, Table Mt. near Derwent River"

nomenclatural synonym: Carex compacta (R.Br.) Poir. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Uncinia hookeri Boott legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uncinia rupestris Raoul legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uncinia divaricata Boott legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uncinia filiformis Boott legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uncinia nervosa Boott legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uncinia debilior F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uncinia compacta var. nervosa (Boott) C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uncinia cheesemanniana Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uncinia clarkei Petrie legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uncinia tenella var. robustior Kük. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uncinia riparia var. hookeri (Boott) Kük. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uncinia flaccida S.T.Blake legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 18 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Uncinia flaccida S.T.Blake legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 384 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Uncinia. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 142 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 335, Fig. 68i-j [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Carex compacta (R.Br.) Poir. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Uncinia compacta R.Br. var. compacta legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uncinia rupestris Raoul legitimate

• APC Dist.: NSW, Vic, Tas

Global Carex Group (2015), Making Carex monophyletic (Cyperaceae, tribe Cariceae): a new broader circumscription. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 179: 29 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Carex austrocompacta K.L.Wilson legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 88 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Carex austrocompacta K.L.Wilson legitimate

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