Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 46 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Habitat in Germaniae, Helvetiae, Galliae paludosis.

Reichenbach, H.G.L. (1830), Flora Germania Excursoria: 72 [basionym]

basionym of: Pycreus flavescens (L.) P.Beauv. ex Rchb. legitimate

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]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 259 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 124 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 584 [secondary reference]

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]

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

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

misapplied to: Cyperus sanguinolentus Vahl nom. cons. by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 259

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

taxonomic synonym: Pycreus flavescens (L.) P.Beauv. ex Rchb. legitimate

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 328, Fig. 48G [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 356 [secondary reference]

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]

nomenclatural synonym: Pycreus flavescens (L.) P.Beauv. ex Rchb. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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

doubtful pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus sanguinolentus Vahl nom. cons. by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 259

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

misapplied to: Cyperus macrostachyos Lam. 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

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

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus flavidus Retz. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 259

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