Vahl, M.(H.) (1805), Enumeratio Plantarum 2: 287 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Scirpus miliaceus L. nom. rej.

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 316 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Trichelostylis miliacea (L.) Nees nom. rej.

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

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

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 461 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus miliaceus L. nom. rej. nomenclatural synonym: Trichelostylis miliacea (L.) Nees nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis littoralis Gaudich. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 12 [secondary reference]

Blake, S.T. (1937), Notes on Australian Cyperaceae, I. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 48(11): 92 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Fimbristylis trachycarya F.Muell. legitimate

Blake, S.T. (1937), Notes on Australian Cyperaceae, I. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 48(11): 91 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Fimbristylis rara R.Br. legitimate

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): 552-553 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Trichelostylis miliacea (L.) Nees nom. rej.

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 41 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis quinquangularis (Vahl) Kunth legitimate

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

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 298-299, Fig. 43R [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus miliaceus L. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis quinquangularis (Vahl) Kunth legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1080, Fig. 317F [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 207 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Fimbristylis miliaceum Vahl orth. var.

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

taxonomic synonym of: Fimbristylis quinquangularis (Vahl) Kunth legitimate

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