Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 47 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: For note on lectotypification see K.L.Wilson, Telopea 2 (1981) 153–172 (156). See proposal to conserve with Scirpus sylvaticus L. as type by K.L.Wilson, Telopea 38 (1989) 316–320.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 26 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 223 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 126 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Isolepis R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Malacochaete Nees legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 595 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 92-93 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin for a reed or rush."

Hitchcock, A.S. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 118 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Scirpus sylvaticus L.

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 153 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin for a reed or rush"

Koyama, T. (1958), Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo . Section III. Botany 7: 271-363 [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: 495, Fig. 59K, J [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 73 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 81 [secondary reference]

common name: Large-head Club-rush [n/a]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 202-205 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 494-516 [secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 137 [secondary reference]

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: 17 [secondary reference]

Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 512 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. (21 August 1981), A synopsis of the genus Scirpus sens. lat. (Cyperaceae) in Australia. Telopea 2(2): 156 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 282 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 369 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 325 [secondary reference]

Goetghebeur, P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Cyperaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 162 [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: 782 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic (native and naturalised)

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