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

• Type: "Habitat in India orientali. Konig."

Miquel, F.A.W. (1859), Flora van Nederlandsch Indie 1-2(2): 314-315 [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xlviii [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 274 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 301 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis setacea Benth. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 302 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Fimbristylis rhyticarya F.Muell. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 274

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 211 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1890), Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland: 52 [secondary reference]

Moore, C. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales: 451 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. (July 1895), A supplement to a census of the flora of extra-tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 19: 82 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 449 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis acicularis R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis australica Boeckeler legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 449 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Fimbristylis setacea Benth. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 274

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Fimbristylis setacea Benth. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 125

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Fimbristylis setacea Benth. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 211

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Fimbristylis setacea Benth. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1890), Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland: 52

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Fimbristylis setacea Benth. legitimate by Moore, C. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales: 451

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: 204 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 225 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 588 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 40 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 25 [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: 261, Fig. 59, 60 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Fimbristylis acuminatum Vahl orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis rhyticarya F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Iriha rhyticarya Kuntze orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Iria rhyticarya (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis nutans var. rhyticarya (F.Muell.) Domin legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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