Chamisso, L.K.A. von (1829), De plantis in expeditione speculatoria Romanzoffiana observatis. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 4: 504 & t. 5 fig. 6C. [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Sieb. plant. aegypt. exsic. ad Damiatte lectum."; Egypt, Damietta, June 1821, Sieber s.n. (holotype B ?; isotypes G,K) (ref. Melanie Wilmot-Dear Kew Bull. 40(2) (1985) 266).

Schumann, K.M. in Martius, C.F.P. von (15 April 1894), Najadaceae. Flora Brasiliensis 3(3): 750 [basionym]

basionym of: Ceratophyllum demersum var. muricatum (Cham.) Hook.f. ex K.Schum. legitimate

Wilmot-Dear, M. (1985), Ceratophyllum revised - a study in fruit and leaf variation. Kew Bulletin 40(2): 266 [basionym]

basionym of: Ceratophyllum submersum subsp. muricatum (Cham.) Wilmot-Dear legitimate

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Ceratophyllaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 62 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ceratophyllum demersum L. legitimate

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

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

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