Linnaeus, C. [filius] (April 1782), Supplementum Plantarum: 103 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Habitat in Malabaria.

Kunth, K.S. (1837), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 2: 93 [secondary reference]

Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 2(7): 49 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 266 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 277 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Cyperus elatus L. nom. illeg. by Rottboell, C.F. (1773), Descriptionum et Iconum Rariores et pro maxima parte novas plantas: 37, pl. 10

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 125 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 589 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 430-431 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Cyperus elatus L. nom. illeg. by Rottboell, C.F. (1773), Descriptionum et Iconum Rariores et pro maxima parte novas plantas: 37, pl. 10

Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 3: 117 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 11 [secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae. Das Pflanzenreich 101: 137-141 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 610 [secondary reference]

Koyama, T. (1977), The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore 30: 135 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 40 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 312, Fig. 45A [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. (27 September 1991), Systematic studies in Cyperus section Pinnati (Cyperaceae). Telopea 4(3): 425 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Cyperus microcephalus R.Br. subsp. microcephalus legitimate by Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 3: 117

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

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

nomenclatural synonym: Cyperus distans L.f. f. distans legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus distans f. pallidior Kük. legitimate misapplication: Cyperus elatus L. nom. illeg. by Rottboell, C.F. (1773), Descriptionum et Iconum Rariores et pro maxima parte novas plantas: 37, pl. 10

• APC Dist.: Qld

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

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus microcephalus R.Br. legitimate by Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 3: 117

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