Persoon, C.H. (1805), Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum 1: 400 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Stratiotes alismoides L. legitimate

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]

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 257 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 115 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 518 [secondary reference]

Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 3: 199 [secondary reference]

Hartog, C. den (December 1957), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 5(4): 398-399 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ottelia indica (Willd.) Planch. ex Dalzell & Gibson 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: 231-232 [secondary reference]

Li H. (1981), Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica: 32-33 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ottelia indica (Willd.) Planch. ex Dalzell & Gibson nom. illeg.

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 212 [secondary reference]

Cook, C.D.K. & Urmi-Konig, K. (October 1984), A revision of the genus Ottelia (Hydrocharitaceae). 2. The species of Eurasia, Australasia and America. Aquatic Botany 20(1-2): 133-146 [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]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 10 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Stratiotes alismoides L. legitimate

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: 197, Fig. 40 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Stratiotes alismoides L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Damasonium alismoides (L.) R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Damasonium indicum Willd. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Ottelia indica (Willd.) Planch. ex Dalzell & Gibson nom. illeg.

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McColl, K.A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 24 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Stratiotes alismoides L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Damasonium indicum Willd. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Damasonium alismoides (L.) R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Ottelia indica (Willd.) Planch. ex Dalzell & Gibson nom. illeg.

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