Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 226 [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 pterigospermus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

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

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 753 [basionym]

basionym of: Iria pterigosperma (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate

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]

• Lectotype: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria (R. Brown, Iter australiense 1802–05 No. 5946

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus pterigospermus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

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]

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]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1084, Fig. 316J [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Fimbristylis pterygosperma Benth. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus pterigosperma Poir. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus pterigospermus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Iriha pterygosperma Kuntze orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Iria pterigosperma (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Comment: A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2607 (1991) stated that Poiret did not validly make the combination Scirpus pterigospermus. However, under Article 33.1 of the 2006 (Vienna) edition of the ICBN, this name is considered to be validly published.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Parker, C.M. & Biggs, L.J. (1 May 2014), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2013. Nuytsia 24: 56 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Fimbristylis pterygosperma Benth. orth. var.

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