Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1061 [tax. nov.]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Equisetaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 12 [secondary reference]

Hauke, R.L. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1990), Equisetaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 1: 46-48, Fig.15 [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Equisetaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 97-98 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Equisetaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 12 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Horsetail [n/a]

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

• APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised)

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Christenhusz, M.J.M., Zhang, X.C. & Schneider, H. (2011), A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns. Phytotaxa 19: 9 [secondary reference]

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