Lipocarpha chinensis (Osbeck) J.Kern

POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name:

• Middleton, D.J. & al. (eds.) (2019). Flora of Singapore 7: 1-525. Singapore Botanic Gardens. [Cited as Cyperus albescens.]
• Sarder, N.U. & Hassan, M.A. (eds.) (2018). Vascular flora of Chittagong and the Chittagong Hill Tracts 1: 1-897. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka. [Cited as Cyperus albescens.]

This name was accepted following an alternative taxonomy by these authorities:

• Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers. [Cited as Lipocarpha chinensis.]
• Cabezas, F., Aedo, C. & Velayos, M. (2004). Checklist of the Cyperaceae of Equatorial Guinea (Annobón, Bioko, Río Muni). Belgian Journal of Botany 137: 3-26. [Cited as Lipocarpha chinensis.]
• Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Lipocarpha chinensis.]
• Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226. [Cited as Lipocarpha chinensis.]
• Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Lipocarpha chinensis.]
• Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Lipocarpha chinensis.]
• Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H. (2010). Cyperaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-466. [Cited as Lipocarpha chinensis.]
• Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania. Revue de Taxonomie et de Nomenclature Botaniques 30: 1-307. [Cited as Lipocarpha chinensis.]
• Lye, K.A. & Thery, P. (2012). Flore du Gabon 44: 1-230. Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; Margraf Publishers, Weikersheim; Meise Botanic Garden. [Cited as Lipocarpha chinensis.]
• Pasha, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh. [Cited as Lipocarpha chinensis.]
• Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (2006). Check-list des plantes vasculaires du Gabon. Scripta Botanica Belgica 35: 1-438. [Cited as Lipocarpha chinensis.]
• Velayos, M., Aedo, C., Cabezas, F., de la Estrella, M., Barberá, P. & Fero, M. (eds.) (2014). Flora de Guinea Ecuatorial 11: 1-416. Consejo superior de investigaciones científicas, Real jardín botánico, Madrid. [Cited as Lipocarpha chinensis.]
• Walker, E.H. (1976). Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu islands: 1-1159. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., U.S.A. [Cited as Lipocarpha chinensis.]
• Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2010). Flora of China 23: 1-515. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. [Cited as Lipocarpha chinensis.]

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• in Blumea, Suppl. 4: 167 (1958).

Flora Zambesiaca

• Beentje in F.T.E.A., Cyperaceae: 354 (2010).
• Gordon-Gray, Cyperaceae Natal: 121 (1995).
• Haines & Lye, Sedges & Rushes E. Afr.: 296 (1983).
• Hooper in F.W.T.A., ed.2 3: 328 (1972).
• J. Kern in Blumea, suppl. 4: 167 (1958).

Kew Plants for Health

• "UPWTA (Burkill, 2025)"
• MPNS Import

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Blumea suppl. 4: 167 (1958)
• Bot. Notiser 124: 473, fig. 1 (1971)
• F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 3: 328 (1972)
• Fl. Eth. 6: 489, fig. 212.152 (1997).
• Haines & Lye, Sedges & Rushes E. Afr.: 296, fig. 613 (1983)
• J. EA Nat. Hist. Soc. & Nat. Mus. 25: 22, fig. 51 (1965)
• Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 89(1): 27, fig. A (1989)