Kunth, K.S. (1837), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 2: 229 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Scirpus quinquangularis Vahl legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 317 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Trichelostylis quinquangularis (Vahl) Nees legitimate

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

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

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus quinquangularis Vahl legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Trichelostylis quinquangularis (Vahl) Nees legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Fimbristylis miliacea (L.) Vahl nom. illeg., nom. rej.

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 298 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Fimbristylis miliacea (L.) Vahl nom. illeg., nom. rej.

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

nomenclatural synonym: Scirpus quinquangularis Vahl legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Trichelostylis quinquangularis (Vahl) Nees legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Trichelostyles quinquangularis Benth. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Scirpus miliaceus L. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis miliaceum Vahl orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis miliacea (L.) Vahl nom. illeg., nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Trichelostylis miliacea (L.) Nees nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Trichelostyles miliacea Benth. orth. var.

• APC Comment: See M.T.Strong, Taxon 53(4): 1069-1070 (2004) for a discussion of the nomenclature of this taxon and the need for the rejection of the name Fimbristylis miliacea.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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