Jussieu, A.L. de (4 August 1789), Genera Plantarum: 18 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Najas L.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 48 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 49 [secondary reference]

Thompson, J. (1961), Najadaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 12: 73-74 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 428 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1067-1068 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 26 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Monocots (Alismataceae to Najadaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 419 [secondary reference]

Dahlgren, R.M.T., Clifford, H.T. & Yeo, P.F. (1985), The Families of the Monocotyledons: 322, Fig. 151 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Najadaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 723 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Najadaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 19 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Najadaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 973 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Najadaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 22 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 155 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 567 [secondary reference]

Haynes, R.R., Holm-Nielsen, L.B. & Les. D.H. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Najadaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 301-306, Fig. 79 [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Najadaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 206-207 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 341 [secondary reference]

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 432 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Hydrocharitaceae Juss. nom. cons.

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 75 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Hydrocharitaceae Juss. nom. cons.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Naiadaceae J.M.Black orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Hydrocharitaceae Juss. nom. cons.

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 570, 931 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 931 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Hydrocharitaceae Juss. nom. cons.

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McColl, K.A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Najadaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 99 [secondary reference]

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