Hooker, J.D. (1864), Handbook of the New Zealand Flora 1: 309 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Middle Island: Tarndale?, Sinclair; Lake Tennyson, alt. 4400 ft., Travers."

Gray, M. in Walby, B.J. (ed.) (1974), Miscellaneous notes on Australian plants: Erigeron, Uncinia, Poa and Erythranthera. Contributions from the Herbarium Australiense 6: 2 [secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 143-144, Fig. 109 [secondary reference]

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

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

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

nomenclatural synonym: Uncinia sinclairii Boott ex Hook.f. var. sinclairii legitimate

• APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised)

Global Carex Group (2015), Making Carex monophyletic (Cyperaceae, tribe Cariceae): a new broader circumscription. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 179: 35 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Carex parvispica K.A.Ford legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Carex parvispica K.A.Ford legitimate

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