Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 254 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 123 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 584 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 212 [secondary reference]

Moldenke, H.N. (1968), Additional notes on Eriocaulaceae. XVI. Phytologia 17(7): 488 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon ciliiflorum F.Muell. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 227 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 46 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 29 [secondary reference]

Leach, G.J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Eriocaulaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1027, Fig. 307A [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 210 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 178 [secondary reference]

Leach, G.J. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Eriocaulaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 225-226, Fig. 47 [secondary reference]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 61 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Eriocaulon cinereum R.Br. var. cinereum legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon sieboldtianum Steud. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon sieboldianum Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon ciliiflorum F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon cinereum var. sieboldianum T.Koyama nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon cinereum var. sieboldianum T.C.Huang nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon cinereum var. sieboldianum (Siebold & Zucc.) T.Koyama ex C.E.Chang legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon A87689 Arid Zone [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon sp. Arid Zone (D.Schunke 28/Aug/90) NT Herbarium [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Leach, G.J. (13 September 2017), A revision of Australian Eriocaulon (Eriocaulaceae). Telopea 20: 223-224, Figs 4a-d, 11.10 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: "[‘(T.) v.v.’] Australia: NT, Carpentaria, Island h [North Island, Sir Edward Pellew Group], 1802, R. Brown s.n. [Iter Austral. 5823] (holo BM802017!)"
• Lectotype: "In locis udis ad flumen Victoriae.’, F. Mueller s.n., (lecto (here designated) MEL710192!, plant second from top on the left hand side; isolecto K!)

taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon sieboldianum Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon ciliiflorum F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon sp. G [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon A87689 Arid Zone [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon sp. Arid Zone (D.Schunke 28/Aug/90) NT Herbarium [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon sp. G Kimberley Flora (K.F.Kenneally 11374E) WA Herbarium [n/a]

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (22 March 2018), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2017. Nuytsia 29: 7 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon sp. G Kimberley Flora (K.F.Kenneally 11374E) WA Herbarium [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Eriocaulon cinereum R.Br. var. cinereum legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon sieboldtianum Steud. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon sieboldianum Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon ciliiflorum F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon cinereum var. sieboldianum T.Koyama nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon cinereum var. sieboldianum T.C.Huang nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon cinereum var. sieboldianum (Siebold & Zucc.) T.Koyama ex C.E.Chang legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon sp. G [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon A87689 Arid Zone [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon sp. G Kimberley Flora (K.F.Kenneally 11374E) WA Herbarium [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Eriocaulon sp. Arid Zone (D.Schunke 28/Aug/90) NT Herbarium [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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