Thwaites, G.H.K. (1864), Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae 5: 349 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "between Negombo and Kornegalle."

Blake, S.T. (1949), Notes on Australian Cyperaceae, VII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 60(5): 47 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 555-557 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

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