Blake, S.T. (1940), Notes on Australian Cyperaceae, IV. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 51(11): 49 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "VICTORIA.– Mount Buffalo, in rock crevices, ca. 5,000 feet, Jan. 26th, 1935, Blake 7398 (Type in Bri.)."

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 144-145 [secondary reference]

common name: Mountain hook-sedge [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym of: Uncinia compacta R.Br. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Uncinia compacta R.Br. legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 385 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Uncinia. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 143 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 335-336, Fig. 68m-o [secondary reference]

common name: Mountain Hook-sedge [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Uncinia tenella var. robustior Kük. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NSW, ACT, 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 austroflaccida K.L.Wilson nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Carex sp. Flaccida (S.T.Blake 7398) Australian National Herbarium [n/a]

Wilson, K.L. (26 October 2020), New combination for Uncinia flaccida in Carex (Cyperaceae). Telopea 23: 152 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Australia: Victoria: Mount Buffalo, c. 5,000 feet [1,500 m], S.T. Blake 7398, 26 Jan 1935; holo BRI AQ0341575; iso CANB 260671, K 000960285, L 0042816, MEL 67107, MEL 67112, MEL 2084383, MEL 2380193, NSW 43165, P 00605672, P 00605673."

Wilson, K.L. (26 October 2020), New combination for Uncinia flaccida in Carex (Cyperaceae). Telopea 23: 152 [basionym]

basionym of: Carex flaccida (S.T.Blake) K.L.Wilson legitimate

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