Linnaeus, C. [filius] (April 1782), Supplementum Plantarum: 103 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Habitat ad Cap. bonae spei.

Hooker, J.D. (1867), Handbook of the New Zealand Flora 2: 745 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71): 261 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 265 [secondary reference]

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

Tate, R. (1882), Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 5: 91 [secondary reference]

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

Palla, E. (1902), Allgemeine Botanische Zeitschrift fur Systematik 8: 67 [basionym]

basionym of: Eucyperus tenellus (L.f.) Palla legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 424 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cyperus minimus Thunb. nom. illeg.

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: 297-298 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cyperus minimus Thunb. nom. illeg.

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 144, Fig. 196 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 490 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 78 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 730 [secondary reference]

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

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

common name: Tiny Flat-sedge [n/a]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 318 [secondary reference]

common name: Tiny Flatsedge [n/a]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 344 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Cyperus. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 90 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 296, Fig. 61e-f [secondary reference]

common name: Tiny Flat-sedge [n/a]

Rye, B.L. (10 October 1997), A synopsis of the annual species of Cyperaceae from central and southern Western Australia. Nuytsia 11(3): 407, Fig. 4 (map) [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Eucyperus tenellus (L.f.) Palla legitimate

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 273 [secondary reference]

common name: Tiny Flat-sedge [n/a]

Jessup, L.W. (2005), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 3 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [secondary reference]

• Comment: Name misapplied by Sharpe (1989), current name uncertain

Muasya, A.M., Simpson, D.A. & Smets, E. (2006), Isolepis tenella, a New Combination in Cyperaceae. Novon 16: 89 [basionym]

basionym of: Isolepis tenella (L.f.) Muasya & D.A.Simpson nom. illeg.

Muasya, A.M., Simpson, D.A. & Smets, E. (2007), Isolepis levynsiana, a New Name for Cyperus tenellus (Cyperaceae). Novon 17: 59 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Isolepis levynsiana Muasya & D.A.Simpson legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Isolepis levynsiana Muasya & D.A.Simpson legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 85 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Isolepis levynsiana Muasya & D.A.Simpson legitimate

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