Kunth, K.S. (1837), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 2: 237 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Sieb. herb. Maurit. 2. n. 201."

Boeckeler, J.O. (October 1872), Die Cyperaceen des Koniglichen Herbariums zu Berlin. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 37(4/5): 537 [basionym]

basionym of: Fimbristylis ferruginea var. sieberiana (Kunth) Boeckeler legitimate

Kern, J.H. (1955), Florae Malesianae Precursores X. Notes on Malaysian and some S.E.Asian Cyperaceae III. Blumea 8(1): 131 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis paucispicata F.Muell. legitimate

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 572-573 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis paucispicata F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis ferruginea var. foliata Benth. legitimate

Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 501-502 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis ferruginea var. foliata Benth. 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]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 297, Fig. 43O [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1087, Fig. 315M [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Fimbristylis sieberana Kunth orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Fimbristylis ferruginea var. sieberiana (Kunth) Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scirpus arvensis Retz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis arvensis (Retz.) Vahl legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis paucispicata F.Muell. legitimate doubtful taxonomic synonym: Fimbristylis ferruginea var. foliata Benth. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld

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