Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 361 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae subhumidis."

Delarbre, A. (1800), Flore de la ci-devant Auvergne. Flore d' Auvergne Edn. 2, 2: 518 [basionym]

basionym of: Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre legitimate

Spach, E. (20 March 1841), Histoire Naturelle des Vegetaux. Phanerogames 10: 536 [basionym]

basionym of: Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Spach isonym

Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 269 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 31 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 89 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Pepper [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 412 [secondary reference]

• Vernacular: Tang-gul

Domin, K. (1921), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 612 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Polygonum gracile Salisb. legitimate

Danser, B.H. (1927), A revision of the Queensland Polygona. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 39: 36 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 283 [secondary reference]

common name: Waterpepper [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 158 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Smartweed [n/a] common name: Water Pepper [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 590 [secondary reference]

common name: Water-pepper [n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 154 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Pepper [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 232 [secondary reference]

common name: Smartweed [n/a] common name: Waterpepper [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 176 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Polygonaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 90-91, Fig. 11D [secondary reference]

common name: Water Pepper [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 68 [secondary reference]

Perry, G. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Polygonum. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 113 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Pepper [n/a]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Polygonaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 282 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Polygonaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 277 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Polygonaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 282 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre legitimate

Jessup, L.W. (2003), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 1 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre legitimate

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 404 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre legitimate

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre legitimate

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre legitimate

Reveal, J.L., Gandhi, K.N. & Jarvis, C. (2010), [1944] Proposal to conserve the name Polygonum hydropiper (Polygonaceae) with a conserved type. Taxon 59(3): 982 [secondary reference]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 64 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre legitimate

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