Rodway, L. (June 1893), Notes on some plants new to Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1892: 93 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "... was named after its finder ... It is very common on hills from the fourth milestone on the Huon road to Mt. Nelson."

Rodway, L. (1894), Botanical Notes. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1893: 182 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Gahnia graminifolia Rodway nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Benl, G. (1940), Die Systematik der Gattung Gahnia Forst. Botanisches Archiv: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Botanik 40: 237 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gahnia graminifolia Rodway nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Kükenthal, G. (1943), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae XIII. Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 52(1): 105 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gahnia graminifolia Rodway nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Morris, D.I. in Banks, M.R., Smith, S.J., Orchard, A.E. & Kantvilas, G. (ed.) (1991), Restio hookeri (Restionaceae) A new name for a familiar Tasmanian species; and reinstatement of Gahnia rodwayi F.Muell. ex Rodway (Cyperaceae). Aspects of Tasmanian Botany - a tribute to Winifred Curtis: 34 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Gahnia. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 134 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Gahnia graminifolia Rodway nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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

nomenclatural synonym: Gahnia graminifolia Rodway nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

• APC Comment: A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 1382 (1991) treats Gahnia rodwayi name as nom. inval., nom. nud., however the name is treated as validly published by D.I.Morris, Aspects of Tasmanian Botany - a tribute to Winifred Curtis 34 (1991), and this is followed here.
• APC Dist.: Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 86 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Gahnia graminifolia Rodway nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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