Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xlvii. [secondary reference]

Thwaites, G.H.K. (1864), Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae 5: 332 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Vallisneria octandra Roxb. legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 255 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Vallisneria octandra Roxb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Blyxa roxburghii Rich. nom. illeg.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 50 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Blyxa roxburghii Rich. nom. illeg.

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 52 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Blyxa roxburghii Rich. nom. illeg.

Hartog, C. den (December 1957), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 5(4): 392 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Blyxa roxburghii Rich. nom. illeg.

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 219 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 212-213 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Blyxa roxburghii Rich. nom. illeg.

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 29 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 41 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 965, Fig. 291D [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Hydrocharitaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 194, Fig. 39 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Vallisneria octandra Roxb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Blyxa roxburghi Rich. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Blyxa roxburghii Rich. nom. illeg.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McColl, K.A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 16-17, Fig. 4D [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Vallisneria octandra Roxb. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Blyxa roxburghii Rich. nom. illeg.

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