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

• Type: "Habitat in Europae pascuis muscosis."

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

Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2, Appendix III: 593 [secondary reference]

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1827), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 4(1): 8 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 22 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), North Australian Botany. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 330 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 683 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Marsilea brownii A.Braun legitimate

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3: 88 [secondary reference]

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

Anonymous (1883), Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 24 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 279 [secondary reference]

common name: Nardoo [n/a]

Domin, K. (January 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 215 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Marsilea brownii A.Braun legitimate by Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 167

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Marsilea brownii A.Braun legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 683

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

taxonomic synonym of: Marsilea brownii A.Braun legitimate

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

misapplied to: Marsilea brownii A.Braun legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 683

Jones, D.L. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Marsileaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 167 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Marsilea mutica Mett. legitimate by Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2, Appendix III: 593

Iamonico, D. (2012), Lectotypification of Marsilea quadrifolia L. (Marsileaceae). American Fern Journal 102(4): 291 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Lectotype (designated here): Lemma, pl. 15 in de Jussieu (1740: Histoire de Lemma)."

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