Scirpus spadiceus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 51. 1753.

"Habitat in Jamaicae fluviis." RCN: 425.

Lectotype (McVaugh, Fl. Novo-Galiciana 13: 380. 1993): [icon] "Gramen cyperoides majus aquaticum, paniculis plurimis junceis sparsis, spicis ex oblongo rotundis spadiceis" in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 1: 118, t. 76, f. 2. 1707. - Typotype: Herb. Sloane 2: 53 (BM-SL) .

Current name: Fimbristylis spadicea (L.) Vahl ( Cyperaceae).