Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 104 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Diodia virginiana L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 45 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Description of new Australian plants chiefly from the colony of Victoria. Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science 1: 128 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 189 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Allen, W.K. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Diodia. Flora of New South Wales 3: 495 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 275 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised)

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