Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 380 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Chaetospora sphaerocephala R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Hook.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gymnoschoenus adustus Nees legitimate

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 240 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Schoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Hook.f. legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 480 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Hook.f. legitimate

Kükenthal, G. (1940), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. VIII. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 48: 59 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Hook.f. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 15 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Hook.f. legitimate

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Gymnoschoenus. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 119 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Hook.f. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Hook.f. legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 87 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Hook.f. legitimate

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