Bentham, G. in Hooker, W.J. (1843), Enumeration of the plants collected by R.B. Hinds, Esq., and by Mr Barclay in the Feejee Islands, Tanna, New Ireland and New Guinea. London Journal of Botany 2: 239 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Amboyna, Mr. Barclay."

Miquel, F.A.W. (1856), Flora van Nederlandsch Indie 3(2): 314 [basionym]

basionym of: Fimbristylis acuminata var. setacea (Benth.) Miq. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 301 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Fimbristylis acuminata Vahl legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 449-450 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Fimbristylis acuminata var. setacea (Benth.) Miq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Isolepis cochleata Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis acuminata var. β minor Boeckeler legitimate pro parte misapplication: Fimbristylis acuminata Vahl legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 274 misapplication: Fimbristylis acuminata Vahl legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 125 misapplication: Fimbristylis acuminata Vahl legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 211 misapplication: Fimbristylis acuminata Vahl legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1890), Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland: 52 misapplication: Fimbristylis acuminata Vahl legitimate by Moore, C. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales: 451

Kern, J.H. (1955), Florae Malesianae Precursores X. Notes on Malaysian and some S.E.Asian Cyperaceae III. Blumea 8(1): 148 [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): 589 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym of: Fimbristylis acicularis R.Br. legitimate

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