Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 214 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 267 [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]

• Lectotype: "Carpentaria (R. Brown, Iter australiense 1802–05 Nr. 5912 ...)"

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

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 417 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Pycreus pumilus var. punctatus (Roxb.) Domin legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 267

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

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

Blake, S.T. (1940), Notes on Australian Cyperaceae, III. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 51(5): 41 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Cyperus nervulosus (Kük.) S.T.Blake legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 267

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]

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: 24 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1045-1046 [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. breviculmis (R.Br.) Kük. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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

misapplied to: Cyperus pumilus L. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 267

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