Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 215 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 432 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Nord-Australien: R. Brown, Iter australiense 1802–05 No. 5902"

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae. Das Pflanzenreich 101: 457 [basionym]

basionym of: Cyperus sporobolus var. microcephalus (R.Br.) Kük. legitimate

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]

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 94 [secondary reference]

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

Wilson, K.L. (27 September 1991), Systematic studies in Cyperus section Pinnati (Cyperaceae). Telopea 4(3): 423-425, Figs 13a-i, 14a-c [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1054 [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 sporobolus var. microcephalus (R.Br.) Kük. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Cyperus fulvus R.Br. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 268 pro parte misapplication: Cyperus sporobolus R.Br. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 281 pro parte misapplication: Cyperus sporobolus R.Br. legitimate by Ewart, A.J. & Davies, O.B. (1917), The Flora of the Northern Territory: 56 pro parte misapplication: Cyperus holoschoenus 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 pro parte misapplication: Cyperus distans L.f. 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 pro parte misapplication: Cyperus sporobolus 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

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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