Schleiden, M.J. (1844), Beitrage zur Botanik: 233 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(67): 187 [secondary reference]

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

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 99 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After J.F. Wolff, German physician and botanist, 1778-1806."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 172 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After J. F. Wolff, German physician and botanist, 1778-1806"

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 453 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 78 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 91 [secondary reference]

Hartog, C. den & Plas, F. van der (1970), A synopsis of the Lemnaceae. Blumea 18(2/2): 366-367 [secondary reference]

Plas, F. van der (1971), Lemnaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(1): 235-237 [secondary reference]

Hartog, C. den & Plas, F. van der (1972), The Australian species of Wolffia (Lemnaceae). Blumea 20(1): 151-153 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 254-256 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1100 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 24 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 44 [secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 170 [secondary reference]

• Type: Wolffia michelii Schleiden, typ. cons.

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Lemnaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 273 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Lemnaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 985 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Lemnaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 38 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 172 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Lemnaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 32 [secondary reference]

Landolt, E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Lemnaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 269, Fig. 68M-P [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Lemnaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 219 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Wolfia Schleid. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 911 [secondary reference]

Landolt, E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Lemnaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 281 [secondary reference]

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