Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 225 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (T.) v.v.

Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1 November 1817), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 5(1): 98 [basionym]

basionym of: Scirpus pauciflorus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 303 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis filiformis (Nees) Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis pumila Benth. legitimate

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

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 594 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 451 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus pauciflorus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trichelostylis filiformis Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis filiformis (Nees) Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis pumila Benth. legitimate

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

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: 205 [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): 564 [secondary reference]

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

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: 296, Fig. 43J [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1083, Fig. 317G, 318E [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 303 [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]

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: 266, Fig. 60, 62 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 569 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Trichelostylis filiformis Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis filiformis (Nees) Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis pumila Benth. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus pauciflora Poir. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus pauciflorus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trichelostylis filiformis Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis filiformis (Nees) Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis pumila Benth. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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