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 riparia (R.Br.) Poir. nom. illeg.

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]

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 129 [secondary reference]

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

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1909), Cyperaceae - Caricoideae. Das Pflanzenreich 38: 63 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Carex riparia (R.Br.) Poir. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Uncinia rupestris Raoul legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uncinia debilior F.Muell. legitimate

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 257 [secondary reference]

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

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

Nooteboom, H.P. (19 February 1979), A taxonomic revision of the Malesian and Australian species of Uncinia (Cyperaceae). Blumea 24(2): 513 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "R. Brown 6072 (K, BM) Tasmania."

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

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Uncinia. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 140-142 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 439 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Uncinia debilior F.Muell. legitimate by Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1909), Cyperaceae - Caricoideae. Das Pflanzenreich 38: 63

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 335 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Uncinia nemoralis K.L.Wilson legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 257

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

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

• APC Dist.: Vic, Tas

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

misapplied to: Uncinia debilior F.Muell. legitimate by Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1909), Cyperaceae - Caricoideae. Das Pflanzenreich 38: 63

Global Carex Group (2015), Making Carex monophyletic (Cyperaceae, tribe Cariceae): a new broader circumscription. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 179: 37 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Carex umbricola 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: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Carex debilior (F.Muell.) K.L.Wilson legitimate by Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1909), Cyperaceae - Caricoideae. Das Pflanzenreich 38: 63

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