Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1099 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 485 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 167 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 136 [secondary reference]

Christensen, C.F.A. in Christensen, C.F.A. (ed.) (1906), Index Filicum: LVII [secondary reference]

• Type: Marsilea quadrifolia L.

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 635 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 42 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 41 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After L. F. Marsigli, an Italian naturalist whose name was Latinized as Marsilius; died 1730"

Tindale, M.D. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (1958), The Pteridophyta of Arnhem Land. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 171, 182 [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: 80 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 35-41 [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. & Henshall, T.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Pteridophyta. Flora of Central Australia: 13 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Marsileaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 54 [secondary reference]

Johnson, D.M. (1988), (911) Proposal to conserve Marsilea L. (Pteridophyta: Marsileaceae) with Marsilea quadrifolia as typ. conserv. Taxon 37: 483 [secondary reference]

Kramer, K.U. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1990), Marsileaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 1: 181-182, Fig 94 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Marsileaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 69 [secondary reference]

common name: Nardoo [n/a]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 457 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Zaluzianskia Neck. nom. rej.

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Marsileaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 49 [secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 54-55 [secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Marsileaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 166 [secondary reference]

common name: Nardoo [n/a]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Algae:Fern Allies. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 45 [secondary reference]

common name: Nardoo [n/a]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Marsileaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 69 [secondary reference]

common name: Nardoo [n/a]

Short, P., Dixon, D. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2003), A review of the ferns and fern allies of the Northern Territory. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 19(3): 24, 26 [secondary reference]

common name: Nardoo [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Marsilia A.Braun orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA (native and naturalised), Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Smith, A.R., Pryer, K.M., Schuettpelz, E., Korall, P., Schneider, H. & Wolf, P.G. (August 2006), A classification for extant ferns. Taxon 55(3): 711 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 526 [secondary reference]

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Zhang, X.C. & Schneider, H. (2011), A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns. Phytotaxa 19: 12 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Marsilia A.Braun orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Marsilea sect. Eumarsilea Sadeb. nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA (native and naturalised), Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic (native and uncertain origin), Tas (naturalised)

Field, A.R. (2 January 2020), Classification and typification of Australian lycophytes and ferns based on Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification PPG I. Australian Systematic Botany 33(1): 31 [secondary reference]

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