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 tenella (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 5, 20 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (May 1854), First general report of the Government Botanist, Dr. F. Muller, on the vegetation of the colony of Victoria, in Australia (Continued). Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 6: 151 [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: 433 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Carex tenella (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 6 [secondary reference]

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

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1909), Cyperaceae - Caricoideae. Das Pflanzenreich 38: 66 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Carex tenella (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 504, Fig. 59G [secondary reference]

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

• Type: as "R. Brown (BM; iso in K, P), Tasmania."

nomenclatural synonym: Carex tenella (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

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: 385 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Uncinia. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 143-144, Fig. 30Q [secondary reference]

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

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

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

nomenclatural synonym: Carex tenella (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Uncinia tenella R.Br. var. tenella legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uncinia sp. C (aff. tenella) [n/a]

• 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 austrotenella 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 austrotenella K.L.Wilson legitimate

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