Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1015 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Vallisneria spiralis L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 446 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 345 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 115 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 518 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 50 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Antonio Vallisnieri, an Italian doctor and botanist, 1661-1730."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 52 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Antonio Vallisnieri, an Italian doctor and botanist, 1661-1730"

Hartog, C. den (December 1957), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 5(4): 387-389 [secondary reference]

Thompson, J. (1961), Hydrocharitaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 18: 86 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 425 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 16, Fig, 9. [secondary reference]

common name: Eel Weed [n/a]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 236-240 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1053, 1054 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 20 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Monocots (Alismataceae to Najadaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 415 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 718-719 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 8 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 969-971 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 14 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 134 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Hydrocharitaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 9-11 [secondary reference]

Cook, C.D.K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Hydrocharitaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 246, Fig. 61D-G [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Hydrocharitaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 199 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 316 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Physkium Lour. legitimate

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Physkium Lour. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Maidenia W.Fitzg. ex Rendle legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 891 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McColl, K.A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 25-26 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Physkium Lour. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Maidenia W.Fitzg. ex Rendle legitimate

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