Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 126 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae sossis & rivulis."

Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2, Appendix III: - [secondary reference]

Smith, J.E. in Rees, A. (1814), The Cyclopaedia 28: - [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1857), Notes made during the recent expedition across the northern portion of Australia, under the command of Mr Surveyor Gregory. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 9: 167 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3: 83 [secondary reference]

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

Bennett, A. (1887), Revision of the Australian species of Potamogeton. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 25: 178 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 276 [secondary reference]

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

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 253 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 47 [secondary reference]

common name: Curly Pondweed [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 48 [secondary reference]

common name: Curly Pondweed [n/a]

Thompson, J. (1961), Potamogetonaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 9: 69 [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: 427-428 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 14, fig. 5B. [secondary reference]

common name: Pondweed [n/a]

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 65-66 [secondary reference]

vernacular name: Curly Pondweed [n/a]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 276-278 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 38 [secondary reference]

common name: Curly Pondweed [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 57 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Monocots (Alismataceae to Najadaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 418, Fig. 540B [secondary reference]

common name: Curly pondweed [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 28 [secondary reference]

Haynes, R.R. (1986), Typification of Linnaean Species of Potamogeton (Potamogetonaceae). Taxon 35(3): 567 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "There is a specimen at LINN, number 175.6, ... I designate it the lectotype of P. crispus"

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 69 [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), Potamogetonaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 724 [secondary reference]

common name: Curly Pondweed [n/a]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Potamogetonaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 15, Fig. 3C [secondary reference]

common name: Curly Pondweed [n/a]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Potamogetonaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 975, Fig. 292E [secondary reference]

common name: Curly Pondweed [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Papassotiriou, S. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Potamogetonaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 24 [secondary reference]

common name: Curly Pondweed [n/a]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 150, Fig. 31i-j [secondary reference]

common name: Curly Pondweed [n/a]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Potamogetonaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 18-19 [secondary reference]

common name: Curly Pondweed [n/a]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Potamogetonaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 204, Fig. 42 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Potamogeton crispum L. orth. var. misapplication: Potamogeton obtusifolius Mert. & W.D.J.Koch legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 227

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Papassotiriou, S.E., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hellquist, C.B. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Potamogetonaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 88-89 [secondary reference]

common name: Curly Pondweed [n/a]

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