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.

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 281 [secondary reference]

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1: 5 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1746 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 591 [secondary reference]

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

• Lectotype: "Endemisch in Nord-Australien: R. Brown, Iter australiense 1802–05 No. 5904!"

Ewart, A.J. & Davies, O.B. (1917), The Flora of the Northern Territory: 56 [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]

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

orthographic variant: Cyperus spherobolus Poir. orth. var.

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 319, 320 [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]

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

• Comment: Appears in square brackets and italics as an "erroneous record".

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 25 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. (27 September 1991), Systematic studies in Cyperus section Pinnati (Cyperaceae). Telopea 4(3): 436-438, Figs 17g-i, 18b [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Cyperus spherobolus Poir. orth. var.

Wilson, K.L. (27 September 1991), Systematic studies in Cyperus section Pinnati (Cyperaceae). Telopea 4(3): 447 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus viscidulus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 281

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus viscidulus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Ewart, A.J. & Davies, O.B. (1917), The Flora of the Northern Territory: 56

Wilson, K.L. (27 September 1991), Systematic studies in Cyperus section Pinnati (Cyperaceae). Telopea 4(3): 439 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus orgadophilus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 281

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus orgadophilus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1746

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus orgadophilus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Ewart, A.J. & Davies, O.B. (1917), The Flora of the Northern Territory: 56

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus orgadophilus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae. Das Pflanzenreich 101: 457

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus orgadophilus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 319, 320

Wilson, K.L. (27 September 1991), Systematic studies in Cyperus section Pinnati (Cyperaceae). Telopea 4(3): 425 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus microcephalus R.Br. subsp. microcephalus legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 281

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus microcephalus R.Br. subsp. microcephalus legitimate by Ewart, A.J. & Davies, O.B. (1917), The Flora of the Northern Territory: 56

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus microcephalus R.Br. subsp. microcephalus 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

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1057 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Cyperus spherobolus Poir. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Cyperus sporobolus R.Br. var. sporobolus legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT

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

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus orgadophilus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 281

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus orgadophilus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1746

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus orgadophilus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 591

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus orgadophilus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Ewart, A.J. & Davies, O.B. (1917), The Flora of the Northern Territory: 56

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus orgadophilus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae. Das Pflanzenreich 101: 457

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus orgadophilus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 319, 320

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Cyperus orgadophilus K.L.Wilson 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

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Cyperus orgadophilus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 11

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Cyperus orgadophilus K.L.Wilson legitimate by Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1057

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

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus microcephalus R.Br. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 281

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus microcephalus R.Br. legitimate by Ewart, A.J. & Davies, O.B. (1917), The Flora of the Northern Territory: 56

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus microcephalus 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

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