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Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 127 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Schoenus L. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 597 [secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. (1940), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. VIII. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 48: 49-56 [secondary reference]

Koyama, T. (1961), Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo . Section III. Botany 8: 37-148 [secondary reference]

• Type: Mesomelaena stygia (R.Br) Nees

Wilson, K.L. (21 August 1981), Revision of the genus Mesomelaena (Cyperaceae). Telopea 2(2): 181-195 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 892 [secondary reference]

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Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 540 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA

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