Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 336 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Gallia, Italia, Veronae."

Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 264 [secondary reference]

Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 237 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 161 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 90 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 417 [secondary reference]

common name: Fiddle Dock [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 172, Fig. 44, A [secondary reference]

common name: Fiddle Dock [n/a]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 281, Fig. 335, A [secondary reference]

common name: Fiddle Dock [n/a]

Rechinger, K.H. (1949), Rumices asiatici. Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Gattung Rumex VII. Candollea 12: 102-107 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 529, Fig. 955 [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: 156 [secondary reference]

common name: Fiddle Dock [n/a]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 103 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 585-586, Fig. 124E [secondary reference]

common name: Fiddle Dock [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 235, Fig. 43f, 236 [secondary reference]

common name: Red Dock [n/a] common name: Fiddle Dock [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 177 [secondary reference]

Rechinger, K.H. (24 October 1984), Rumex (Polygonaceae) in Australia: a reconsideration. Nuytsia 5(1): 94-95 [secondary reference]

Rechinger, K.H. (24 October 1984), Rumex (Polygonaceae) in Australia: a reconsideration. Nuytsia 5(1): 88 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Rumex drummondii Meisn. legitimate by Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 264

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 68 [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), Polygonaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 117 [secondary reference]

common name: Fiddle Dock [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 807 [secondary reference]

common name: Fiddle Dock [n/a]

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

misapplied to: Rumex drummondii Meisn. legitimate by Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 264

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Rumex divaricatus L. legitimate common name: Red Dock [n/a] common name: Fiddle Dock [n/a]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - APC [secondary reference]

common name: Fiddle Dock [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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