Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 327 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europe aquosis."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 183, Fig. 254 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Juncus lampocarpus Ehrh. ex Davies legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 481 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 96 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 177 [secondary reference]

common name: Jointed Rush [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 22 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Juncus lampocarpus Ehrh. nom. inval., nom. nud.

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 47 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Juncaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 867 [secondary reference]

common name: Jointed Rush [n/a]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Juncaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 70, Fig. 10B [secondary reference]

common name: Jointed Rush [n/a]

Wilson, K.L., Johnson, L.A.S. & Bankoff, P. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Juncus. Flora of New South Wales 4: 286, pl. 20 [secondary reference]

Albrecht, D.E. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Juncus. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 224-225, Fig. 47j-k [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Juncus acutiflorus Ehrh. ex Hoffm. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1962), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria 1: 292 common name: Jointed Rush [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Juncaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 77, Fig. 27A, 28 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Juncus acutiflorus Ehrh. ex Hoffm. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1962), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria 1: 292

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 425 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. & Johnson, L.A.S. (6 July 2001), The genus Juncus (Juncaceae) in Malesia and allied septate-leaved species in adjoining regions. Telopea 9(2): 386-387 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Juncus lampocarpus Ehrh. ex Davies legitimate

Kirschner, J. (2002), Juncaceae 2: Juncus subg. Juncus. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World 7: 247-249 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 334 [secondary reference]

common name: Jointed Rush [n/a]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

common name: Jointed Rush [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Juncus lampocarpus Ehrh. ex Davies legitimate common name: Jointed Rush [n/a]

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Juncus articulatus L. subsp. articulatus legitimate taxonomic synonym: Juncus lampocarpus Ehrh. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Juncus lampocarpus Ehrh. ex Hoffm. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Juncus lampocarpus Ehrh. ex Davies legitimate taxonomic synonym: Juncus lamprocarpos Rchb. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Juncus lampocarpus Ehrh. ex Rchb. nom. illeg. pro parte misapplication: Juncus acutiflorus Ehrh. ex Hoffm. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1962), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria 1: 292

• APC Comment: Treated as Juncus articulatus subsp. articulatus in Vic.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 90 [secondary reference]

Ferrer-Gallego, P.P. (5 December 2018), Typification of four Linnaean names in the genus Juncus (Juncaceae). Taxon 68(1): 145, Fig. 6 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(designated here): Herb. A. van Royen (L No. 904.145-411 [barcode L 0221767; photo!])."

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