Rottboell, C.F. (October 1772), Descriptiones Plantarum Rariorum: 21 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "K. Plukenet. Tab. 416. Fig. 6."

Rottboell, C.F. (1773), Descriptionum et Iconum Rariores et pro maxima parte novas plantas: 39, t. XI, fig. 1 [secondary reference]

• Type: "K. Plukenet. Tab. 416. Fig. 6."

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 214 [secondary reference]

Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1816), Flore d'Oware et de Benin en Afrique 2(15): 48 [basionym]

basionym of: Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv. 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]

Boeckeler, J.O. (March 1868), Die Cyperaceen des Koniglichen Herbariums zu Berlin. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 35(5): 477-478 [secondary reference]

• Comment: Original description emended in this publication.

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 261 [secondary reference]

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: 84 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), Plants of North-Western Australia. Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 13 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 125, 143 [secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae. Das Pflanzenreich 101: 367-373 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 202 [secondary reference]

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]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 649-650 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Koyama, T. (1977), The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore 30: 149 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 13 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperacee - Cyperus, Lepidosperma, Baumea. Flora of Central Australia: 506, Fig, 638B [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv. legitimate

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]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 880 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 327-328, Fig. 48F [secondary reference]

common name: Bunchy Sedge [n/a]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1055 [secondary reference]

common name: Bunchy Sedge [n/a]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 449 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 355 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 431 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 303 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 304 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv. legitimate common name: Bunchy 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: 249-250, Fig. 53, 57 [secondary reference]

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

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

orthographic variant: Cyperus polystachyus Benth. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. var. polystachyos legitimate

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

common name: Bunchy Sedge [n/a]

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

orthographic variant: Cyperus polystachyus Benth. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. var. polystachyos legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv. var. polystachyos legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Pycreus polystachyos var. typicus Domin nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Cyperus polystachyos var. miser Kük. legitimate doubtful taxonomic synonym: Cyperus polystachyus var. laxiflora Benth. orth. var. doubtful taxonomic synonym: Cyperus polystachyos var. laxiflorus Benth. legitimate doubtful taxonomic synonym: Pycreus polystachyos var. laxiflorus (Benth.) C.B.Clarke legitimate misapplication: Cyperus aquatilis R.Br. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 270 misapplication: Cyperus congestus Vahl legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1904), The Flora of Norfolk Island. Part i. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(4): 724 misapplication: Cyperus congestus Vahl legitimate by Laing, R.M. (1915), A revised list of the Norfolk Island flora, with some notes on the species. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 47: 18 misapplication: Cyperus congestus Vahl legitimate by Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae. Das Pflanzenreich 101: 445

• APC Comment: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. var. polystachyos and Cyperus polystachyos var. laxiflorus Benth. are recognised as distinct taxa in Qld. The status of this taxon in Vic is uncertain.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI, NT, Qld, NSW, LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic

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