Torrey, J. (1857), Explorations and surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. War Department. Route near the thirty-fifth parallel, explored by Lieutenant A.W. Whipple, topographical engineer, in 1853 and 1854. Report on the Botany of the Expedition: Descriptions of the general botanical collections. Pacific Railroad Report 4(5, 4): 135 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Muddy places along Mark West's creek, California; April 30. Upper California; Rev. A. Fitch, (locality not recorded.)"

Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7: 64, 150 [secondary reference]

Bean, A.R. (30 November 2007), A taxonomic revision of Callitriche L. (Callitrichaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 7(3): 549 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Callitriche deflexa A.Braun ex Hegelm. legitimate by Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7: 64, 150

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

misapplied to: Callitriche deflexa A.Braun ex Hegelm. legitimate by Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7: 64, 150

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