Boeckeler, J.O. (July 1874), Die Cyperaceen den Königlichen Herbariums zu Berlin. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 38(4): 391 [tax. nov.]

• Type: F.Schultz. coll. no. 96. Australia, Adelaide.

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 320 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis platystachys Boeckeler 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): 464 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Fimbristylis platystachys Boeckeler legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 464 [basionym]

basionym of: Fimbristylis platystachys var. schultzii (Boeckeler) Domin legitimate

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

Blake, S.T. (1947), Notes on Australian Cyperaceae, VII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 58(2): 45 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis platystachys Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis platystachys var. schultzii (Boeckeler) Domin legitimate

Kern, J.H. (1955), Florae Malesianae Precursores X. Notes on Malaysian and some S.E.Asian Cyperaceae III. Blumea 8(1): 116-117 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis platystachys Boeckeler legitimate

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 320 [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: 206 [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): 559-560 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis platystachys Boeckeler legitimate

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]

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

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis stellata S.T.Blake legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1086, Fig. 317K, 318F [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis stellata S.T.Blake legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Fimbristylis platystachys var. schultzii (Boeckeler) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis platystachys Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Iriha platystachys Kuntze orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Iria platystachys (Boeckeler) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis platystachys var. typica Domin nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis platystachys Boeckeler var. platystachys legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis stellata S.T.Blake legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Brown, G.K. (December 2021), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2020 to 2021. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2021: 9 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Fimbristylis cephalophora F.Muell. legitimate

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