Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 44 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

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: 212 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 124 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Mariscus Vahl legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pycreus P.Beauv. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Anosporum Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sorostachys Steud. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 588 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1: 297 [secondary reference]

• Type: Cyperus esculentus L.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 87 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin, from Greek kypeiros, some species of Sedge."

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae. Das Pflanzenreich 101: 1-671 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 139 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin, from Greek kypeiros, some species of sedge"

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 490, Fig. 59L [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 72 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 76-80 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 592-661 [secondary reference]

Koyama, T. (1977), The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore 30: 124-146 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1140, 1141 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 11 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperacee - Cyperus, Lepidosperma, Baumea. Flora of Central Australia: 502-503 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 878 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 302-309 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. (27 September 1991), Systematic studies in Cyperus section Pinnati (Cyperaceae). Telopea 4(3): 361-496 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 37, 99, 225, 261, 431 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Mariscus Vahl legitimate taxonomic synonym: Torulinium Desv. ex Ham. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Anosporum Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Juncellus C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chlorocyperus Rikli legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1042-1044 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 446 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 330-331 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Cyperus. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 89 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 427-428 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 289-293 [secondary reference]

Goetghebeur, P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Cyperaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 170 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Mariscus Vahl legitimate

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: 242-243 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 271-272 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 568 [secondary reference]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 248 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Mariscus Vahl legitimate

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Remirea Aubl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mariscus Vahl legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pycreus P.Beauv. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Torulinium Desv. ex Ham. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Anosporum Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus subg. Pycreus (P.Beauv.) Miq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus sect. Pycreus (P.Beauv.) Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus sect. Mariscus (Vahl) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus subg. Anosporum (Nees) C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus subg. Mariscus (Vahl) C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus sect. Anosporum (Nees) Pax legitimate taxonomic synonym: Juncellus C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chlorocyperus Rikli legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus sect. Remirea (Aubl.) T.Koyama legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), CoI (native and naturalised), ChI (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (native and naturalised), NI (native and naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Remirea Aubl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mariscus Vahl legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pycreus P.Beauv. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Torulinium Desv. ex Ham. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Anosporum Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus subg. Pycreus (P.Beauv.) Miq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus sect. Pycreus (P.Beauv.) Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus sect. Mariscus (Vahl) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus subg. Mariscus (Vahl) C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus subg. Anosporum (Nees) C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus sect. Anosporum (Nees) Pax legitimate taxonomic synonym: Juncellus C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chlorocyperus Rikli legitimate taxonomic synonym: Queenslandiella Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mariscopsis Cherm. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus sect. Remirea (Aubl.) T.Koyama legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus sect. Queenslandiella (Domin) J.Kern legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), CoI (native and naturalised), ChI (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (native and naturalised), NI (native and naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Remirea Aubl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mariscus Vahl legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pycreus P.Beauv. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Torulinium Desv. ex Ham. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Anosporum Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sorostachys Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus subg. Pycreus (P.Beauv.) Miq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus sect. Pycreus (P.Beauv.) Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus sect. Mariscus (Vahl) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus subg. Mariscus (Vahl) C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus subg. Anosporum (Nees) C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus sect. Anosporum (Nees) Pax legitimate taxonomic synonym: Juncellus C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chlorocyperus Rikli legitimate taxonomic synonym: Queenslandiella Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mariscopsis Cherm. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus sect. Remirea (Aubl.) T.Koyama legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus sect. Queenslandiella (Domin) J.Kern legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), CoI (native and naturalised), ChI (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (native and naturalised), NI (native and naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised)

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