Welwitsch, F.M.J. (December 1859), Apontamentos Phytogeographicos: 578 [tax. nov.]

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

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 42 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Lemnaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 274 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Duckweed [n/a]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Lemnaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 984, Fig. 295A [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 213 [secondary reference]

common name: Duckweed [n/a]

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: 217, Pl. 3, Fig. 45 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Lemna angolensis Welw. ex Hegelm. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lemna paucicostata Hegelm. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Lemna minor L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 163 misapplication: Lemna perpusilla Torr. legitimate by Thompson, C.H. (1898), Missouri Botanical Garden Ninth Annual Report: 33-34

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Landolt, E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Lemnaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 280, Fig. 61K, L [secondary reference]

misapplication: Lemna perpusilla Torr. legitimate by Thompson, C.H. (1898), Missouri Botanical Garden Ninth Annual Report: 33-34

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