Zizania terrestris Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 991. 1753.

"Habitat in Malabariae siccis." RCN: 7193.

Lectotype (Majumdar & Bakshi in Taxon 28: 354. 1979): [icon] " Katou-tsjolam " in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 12: 113, t. 60. 1693.

Current name: Scleria terrestris (L.) Fassett ( Cyperaceae).

Note: Although a number of earlier authors (e.g. Fassett in Rhodora 26: 159. 1924; Kern in Adansonia, sér . 2, 2: 101. 1962) have suggested that the name may have been based on the Rheede illustration, Majumdar & Bakshi appear to have been the first to explicitly treat it as the type.