Richard, A. (1820), Monographie du Genre Hydrocotyle. Annales Generales des Sciences Physiques 4: 186, t. lx, fig. 23 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Cette espèce de la Nouvelle Hollande, y a été découverte par M. R. Brown (V.S.)"

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 341 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 62 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 651 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 248 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 135 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 482 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Hydrocotyle plebeia Spreng. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, SA

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Hydrocotyle plebeia Spreng. orth. var. orthographic variant: Hydrocotyle plebeja J.W.Green orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, SA

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