Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 968 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Zostera marina L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 415 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 121 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 583 [secondary reference]

common name: Grass-wrack [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 46 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek zoster, a girdle: alluding to the ribbon-like leaves."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 46 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek zoster, a girdle; alluding to the ribbon-like leaves"

Thompson, J. (1961), Zosteraceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 13: 75 [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: 427 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 330-332 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Williams, A. (March 1980), Notes on the genus Zostera s. lat. in New South Wales. Telopea 1(6): 451-455 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1072 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 60 [secondary reference]

Robertson, E.L. in Womersley, H.B S. (1984), Seagrasses. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia 1: 111-112 [secondary reference]

common name: Eelgrass [n/a] common name: Garweed [n/a]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Zosteraceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 727 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Zosteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 17 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Zosteraceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 27 [secondary reference]

common name: Eelgrasses [n/a]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 165 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 407 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Zosteraceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 29 [secondary reference]

Kuo, J. & McComb, A.J. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Zosteraceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 500, Fig. 126A-F [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 470 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Zostera sect. Zosterella Asch. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Zostera subg. Zosterella (Asch.) Ostenf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Nanozostera Toml. & Posl. legitimate

• APC Comment: Circumscription of Zostera in NSW includes Heterozostera.
• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI, Vic, Tas

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 924 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Heterozostera (Setch.) Hartog legitimate

Kuo, J. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Zosteraceae. Flora of Australia 39: 139-140 [secondary reference]

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