Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 127 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Ruppia maritima L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 61 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 121 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 583 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 48 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After H.B. Ruppinus, a German botanist; lived 1689-1719."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 48 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After H. B. Ruppius, a German botanist; lived 1680-1719"

Thompson, J. (1961), Ruppiaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 10: 71 [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: 428 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 290-293 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1067 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 58 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Monocots (Alismataceae to Najadaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 418 [secondary reference]

Robertson, E.L. in Womersley, H.B S. (1984), Seagrasses. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia 1: 69-70 [secondary reference]

common name: Sea tassel [n/a]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Potamogetonaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 725 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Ruppiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 21 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Papassotiriou, S. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Potamogetonaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 25 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 152-153 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Ruppiaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 21 [secondary reference]

Haynes, R.R., Holm-Nielsen, L.B. & Les. D.H. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Ruppiaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 448 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 443 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 754 APC [secondary reference]

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

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Brock, M.A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Ruppiaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 95-96 [secondary reference]

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