Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 511 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Indiis."

Linnaeus, C. in Murray, J.A. (ed.) (1774), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 13: 408 [secondary reference]

Murray, J.A. (1784), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 14: 491 [secondary reference]

Gaertner, J. (December 1788), De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 1: 73-74, t. 19, fig. 2 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. legitimate

Willdenow, C.L. (1799), Species Plantarum Edn. 4, 2(2): 1259 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Nelumbo speciosa Willd. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Nelumbonaceae. Flora of Australia 2: 258 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. legitimate

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