Ascolepis pusilla Ridl.

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

• Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn. [Cited as Ascolepis pusilla.]
• Catarino, L., Sampaio Martins, E., Pinto-Basto, M.F. & Diniz, M.A. (2006). Plantas Vasculares e Briófitos da Guiné-Bissau: 1-298. Instituto de investigação científica tropical, Instituto Português de apoio ao desenvolvimento. [Cited as Ascolepis pusilla.]
• Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [Cited as Ascolepis pusilla.]
• 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 Ascolepis pusilla.]
• Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne. [Cited as Ascolepis pusilla.]
• Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H. (2010). Cyperaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-466. [Cited as Ascolepis pusilla.]

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Berhaut, Fl. Sén. ed. 2, 369 (1967)
• F.T.A. 8: 476
• J. Raynal in Adansonia sér. 2, 8: 98 (1968).
• in Trans. Linn. Soc., ser. 2, 2: 164 (1884)

Flora Zambesiaca

• Beentje in F.T.E.A., Cyperaceae: 268 (2010).
• Goetghebeur in Adansonia, n.s. 19: 297 (1980).
• Haines & Lye, Sedges & Rushes E. Afr.: 308, fig.636 (1983) as var. pusilla.
• Ridl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 2: 164 (1884).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Adansonia ser. 2, 19: 297, t. 12.1–12 (1980)
• F.T.A. 8: 476 (1902)
• Haines & Lye, Sedges & Rushes E. Afr.: 308, fig. 636 (1983).
• Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. 2: 164, t. 23/10–14 (1884)