Vahl, M.(H.) (1805), Enumeratio Plantarum 2: 285 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1983) No. 471).

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 225 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 125 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Abildgaardia Vahl legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trichelostylis P.Beauv. ex T.Lestib. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 594 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 92 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin fimbriae, a fringe; stylus, style: the whole style is often fringed or ciliate."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 158 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin fimbriae, a fringe; stylus, style; the whole style is often fringed or ciliate"

Kern, J.H. (1955), Florae Malesianae Precursores X. Notes on Malaysian and some S.E.Asian Cyperaceae III. Blumea 8(1): 110-169 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 494, Fig. 59N [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 74 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 86 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 540-592 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Trachystylis S.T.Blake legitimate

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1141 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 14 [secondary reference]

Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 499 [secondary reference]

Voss, E.G. (1983), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Sydney, 1981. Regnum Vegetabile 111: 318 [secondary reference]

• Type: Fimbristylis dichotoma (L.) M.Vahl

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 882 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 294-295 [secondary reference]

common name: Fringerushes [n/a]

Latz, P.K. (30 May 1990), Taxonomic studies of Fimbristylis (Cyperaceae) in Northern Australia. Nuytsia 7(2): 161-182 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 12 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Abildgaardia Vahl legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1065-1069 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 454 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 376 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 331 [secondary reference]

Goetghebeur, P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Cyperaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 166 [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Cyperaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 260-261 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 274 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 339 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Fimbristylis Vahl sect. Fimbristylis legitimate taxonomic synonym: Iria (Rich. ex Pers.) R.Hedw. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Trichelostylis P.Beauv. ex T.Lestib. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Isolepis b. Trichelostylis (P.Beauv. ex T.Lestib.) Endl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis sect. Trichelostylis (P.Beauv. ex T.Lestib.) Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Iriha Kuntze orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis subg. Trichelostylis (P.Beauv. ex T.Lestib.) Ohwi legitimate

• APC Comment: The circumscription of Fimbristylis in the NT includes Abildgaardia.
• APC Dist.: WA, CoI, ChI, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

Roalson, E.H., Barrett, R.L., Wilson, K.L., Bruhl, J.J. & Larridon, I. (26 March 2019), Crosslandia setifolia is a partly monoecious species of Fimbristylis (Abildgaardieae: Cyperaceae). Phytotaxa 399(2): 163 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Crosslandia W.Fitzg. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Fimbristylis Vahl sect. Fimbristylis legitimate taxonomic synonym: Iria (Rich. ex Pers.) R.Hedw. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Cyperus subg. Iria Rich. ex Pers. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trichelostylis P.Beauv. ex T.Lestib. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Isolepis b. Trichelostylis (P.Beauv. ex T.Lestib.) Endl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis sect. Trichelostylis (P.Beauv. ex T.Lestib.) Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Iriha Kuntze orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Crosslandia W.Fitzg. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Crosslandia W.Fitzg. isonym taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis subg. Trichelostylis (P.Beauv. ex T.Lestib.) Ohwi legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, CoI, ChI, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

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