Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 127 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Habitat in Europae sossis & paludibus.

Schumacher, H.C.F. (1801), Enumeratio Plantarum in Partibus Saellandiae Septentrionalis et Orientalis 1: 178 [secondary reference]

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): xcvi [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]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 227 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton marinus L. legitimate

Borner, C.(K.)J.B. (1912), Eine Flora fur das deutsche Volk: 713 [basionym]

basionym of: Stuckenia pectinata (L.) Borner legitimate

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

common name: Fennel Pondweed [n/a]

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

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 4 [secondary reference]

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

Thompson, J. (1961), Potamogetonaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 9: 70 [secondary reference]

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

vernacular name: Fennel Pondweed [n/a]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 281-283 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 39, Fig. 4 [secondary reference]

common name: Fennel Pondweed [n/a] common name: Sago 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. 540C [secondary reference]

common name: Fennel 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): 569 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: The specimen at UPS (Burser X:124), ... I designate it as the lectotype of P. pectinatus.

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: 725 [secondary reference]

common name: Fennel Pondweed [n/a]

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

common name: Sago Pondweed [n/a] common name: Fennel 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: Sago Pondweed [n/a]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 149-150, 31g-h [secondary reference]

common name: Sago Pondweed [n/a] common name: Fennel Pondweed [n/a]

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

common name: Fennel Pondweed [n/a]

Les, D.H. & Haynes, R.R. (1996), Novon 6(4): 390 [basionym]

basionym of: Coleogeton pectinatus (L.) Les & R.R.Haynes legitimate

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: 206, Fig. 42 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 443 [secondary reference]

common name: Fennel Pondweed [n/a]

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

orthographic variant: Potamogeton pectinatum L. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Stuckenia pectinata (L.) Borner legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Coleogeton pectinatus (L.) Les & R.R.Haynes legitimate taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton marinus L. legitimate misapplication: Potamogeton filiformis Pers. legitimate by Bennett, A. (1887), Revision of the Australian species of Potamogeton. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 25: 178

• APC Comment: Treated as Stuckenia pectinata (L.) Börner in Vic and Tas.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

Papassotiriou, S.E., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hellquist, C.B. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Potamogetonaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 86 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Stuckenia pectinata (L.) Borner legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Stuckenia pectinata (L.) Borner legitimate

Parker, C.M. (10 March 2015), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2014. Nuytsia 25: 22 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Stuckenia pectinata (L.) Borner legitimate

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