Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 87 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in India."

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 192 [secondary reference]

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

Moldenke, H.N. (1969), Additional notes on the Eriocaulaceae. XXIII. Phytologia 18(7): 428-435 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 47 [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. (9 November 2000), Notes and new species of Eriocaulon (Eriocaulaceae) from Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 13(5): 764 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Eriocaulon odontospermum G.J.Leach legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 192

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

misapplied to: Eriocaulon odontospermum G.J.Leach legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 192

Leach, G.J. (13 September 2017), A revision of Australian Eriocaulon (Eriocaulaceae). Telopea 20: 235 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Eriocaulon odontospermum G.J.Leach legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 192

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