Retzius, A.J. (1788), Observationes Botanicae 5: 11 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "E Tranquebaria misit honor. König"

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xlvii [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 262 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 285 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cyperus venustus R.Br. legitimate

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3: 85 [secondary reference]

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

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 591 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 434-435 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cyperus alopecuroides Rottb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus venustus R.Br. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 90 [secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae. Das Pflanzenreich 101: 64-67 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cyperus venustus R.Br. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 141-142 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 491-492 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 72 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 602-603 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cyperus venustus R.Br. legitimate

Koyama, T. (1977), The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore 30: 129-131 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cyperus venustus R.Br. legitimate

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 159-160 [secondary reference]

common name: Tall Flat-sedge [n/a] common name: Giant Sedge [n/a]

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

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

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

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 140 [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]

Williams, K.A.W. (1987), Native Plants of Queensland 3: 90 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 309, Fig. 44C [secondary reference]

common name: Giant Sedge [n/a] common name: Tall Flatsedge [n/a]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 345, pl. 23 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 296-297, Fig. 61k-l [secondary reference]

common name: Flat-sedge [n/a]

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: 245-246, Fig. 55 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Giant Sedge [n/a] common name: Tall Flat-sedge [n/a]

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

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

taxonomic synonym: Cyperus venustus R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyperus exaltatus var. minor J.M.Black isonym taxonomic synonym: Cyperus exaltatus var. minor J.M.Black legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

Mallick, T., Naskar, S. & Ghosh, A. (2018), Typification of Cyperus exaltatus (Cyperaceae) and notes on its identity. Phytotaxa 375(2): 188 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(designated here):— INDIA. Tranquebaria, s.d., s.n., ‘Cyperus exaltatus Retz. Obs. V. 11, Type, Flora of Madras, Det. C. Fisher, 4.xi.1930’, ‘Cyperus exaltatus Retz. Observ. Bot. 5: 11, I speculate that … the putative parents. See C.B. Clarke in Fl. Trop. Africa 8: 370 (1902). Confirmavit: K.D. Gordon-Gray, Univ. of Natal, South Africa, 01.1995’ [Herb. Lund (LD), Acc. no. 1291907!] (available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.ld1291907); further original material: BM barcode BM000958989! & BM000958990! and C barcode C1001075!, C1001076! & C1001077!"

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