(1915), Decades Kewenses. Plantarum Novarum in Herbario Horti Regii Conservatarum. Decas LXXXV. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1915(3): 117 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "AUSTRALIA. Northern Territory; near Darwin, wet land, C.E.F. Allen 170."

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]

Latz, P.K. (30 May 1990), Taxonomic studies of Fimbristylis (Cyperaceae) in Northern Australia. Nuytsia 7(2): 171 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Fimbristylis furva R.Br. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Fimbristylis furva R.Br. legitimate

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