Vahl, M.(H.) (1805), Enumeratio Plantarum 2: 342 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat ad Senegal, in Guinea ac in India Orientali. Jussieu, Thonning, Kö"nig."

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 434 [secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae. Das Pflanzenreich 101: 125-127 [secondary reference]

Blake, S.T. (1942), Cyperus rotundus (Nut Grass) and its allies in Australia. University of Queensland, Department of Biology, Papers 2(2): 9, pl VIII [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cyperus subulatus var. confertus Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus andrewsii C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus bulbosus var. elatior Kük. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Cyperus rotundus L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 279 pro parte misapplication: Cyperus esculentus L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1749

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 142 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cyperus subulatus var. confertus Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus andrewsii C.B.Clarke legitimate common name: Nalgoo [n/a]

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): 605 [secondary reference]

Koyama, T. (1977), The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore 30: 132 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 157-158 [secondary reference]

common name: Nalgoo [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 12 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cyperus subulatus var. confertus Benth. legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperacee - Cyperus, Lepidosperma, Baumea. Flora of Central Australia: 505 Fig. 637I [secondary reference]

common name: Nalgoo [n/a]

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: 1046 [secondary reference]

common name: Nalgoo [n/a]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 346-347 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 205 [secondary reference]

common name: Bush Onion [n/a]

• Vernacular: jarrinyarri (Yawuru)
• Vernacular: niarlboon (Nyul Nyul)
• Vernacular: niyalboon (Bardi)

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

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cyperus andrewsii C.B.Clarke legitimate

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]

common name: Bush Onion [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Cyperus bulbosus Vahl var. bulbosus legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus subulatus var. confertus Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus andrewsii C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus bulbosus var. elatior Kük. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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