Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 213 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) B. v.s."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 270 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 269 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cyperus trinervis R.Br. legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 424 [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Cyperus trinervis R.Br. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 269

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae. Das Pflanzenreich 101: 294 [basionym]

basionym of: Cyperus trinervis var. aquatilis (R.Br.) Kük. legitimate

Blake, S.T. (1940), Notes on Australian Cyperaceae, III. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 51(5): 40 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cyperus trinervis var. aquatilis (R.Br.) Kük. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus inundatus R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus superatus C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus trinervis var. superatus (C.B.Clarke) Kük. 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: 201 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cyperus trinervis var. aquatilis (R.Br.) Kük. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 224 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 624 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cyperus trinervis var. aquatilis (R.Br.) Kük. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 13 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 39 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 23 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 315, Fig. 45J [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1045 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 342 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 303 [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Cyperaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 243, Fig. 55 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 569 [secondary reference]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Cyperus trinervis var. aquatilis (R.Br.) Kük. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus inundatus R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus superatus C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus trinervis var. superatus (C.B.Clarke) Kük. legitimate misapplication: Cyperus trinervis R.Br. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 11 misapplication: Cyperus trinervis R.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 14

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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

misapplied to: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 270

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