Bennett, A. (1892), Notes on Potamogetons. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 30: 229 [tax. nov.]

• Type: " Australia. In the Yas and Murambridge country, 1831, G. Bennett in Herb. Mus. Brit.! Van Alpin River, F. Mueller in Herb. Kew!"

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 583, Fig. 563 [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: 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]

pro parte misapplication: Potamogeton natans L. legitimate by Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 343

Thompson, J. (1961), Potamogetonaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 9: 67-68 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton sulcatus A.Benn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton similis A.Benn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton muricatus Hagstr. legitimate common name: Floating Pondweed [n/a]

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]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 12, fig.4. [secondary reference]

common name: Floating Pondweed [n/a]

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 64 [secondary reference]

vernacular name: Floating Pondweed [n/a]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 218 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 286-290 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton similis A.Benn. legitimate

McGillivray, D.J. (12 June 1973), Michel Gandoger's names of Australian plants. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 4(6): 352 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton odontocarpus Gand. legitimate

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 40 [secondary reference]

common name: Floating Pondweed [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton tepperi A.Benn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton sulcatus A.Benn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton similis A.Benn. legitimate

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Monocots (Alismataceae to Najadaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 417-418, Fig. 540A [secondary reference]

misapplication: Potamogeton natans L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 170 common name: Floating pondweed [n/a]

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

doubtful misapplication: Potamogeton javanicus Hassk. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 4 doubtful misapplication: Potamogeton javanicus Hassk. legitimate by Beard, J.S. in Beard, J.S. (ed.) (1965), Descriptive Catalogue of West Australian Plants: 6 doubtful misapplication: Potamogeton javanicus Hassk. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 5

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]

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

taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton sulcatus A.Benn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton similis A.Benn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton sessilifolius Hagstr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton samariformis Hagstr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton muricatus Hagstr. legitimate common name: Floating Pondweed [n/a]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Potamogetonaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 975-976, Fig. 292F [secondary reference]

common name: Floating Pondweed [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Papassotiriou, S. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Potamogetonaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 25, pl. 1 [secondary reference]

common name: Floating Pondweed [n/a]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 148-149, Fig. 31a-c [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton sulcatus A.Benn. legitimate misapplication: Potamogeton natans L. legitimate by Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 343 misapplication: Potamogeton cheesemanii A.Benn. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 64 common name: Furrowed Pondweed [n/a] common name: Floating Pondweed [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton natans L. legitimate common name: Floating 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: 206, Fig. 42 [secondary reference]

Papassotiriou, S.E. (14 December 2004), Lectotypifications of five Australian species of floating-leaved Potamogeton (Potamogetonaceae). Telopea 10(4): 843-844 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Van Alpin River, Mueller s.n., s.d. (K, Herbarium Hookerianum no. 1897, lectotype, selected here).

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

taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton sulcatus A.Benn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton odontocarpus Gand. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton muricatus Hagstr. legitimate misapplication: Potamogeton natans L. legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 227 misapplication: Potamogeton cheesemanii A.Benn. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 64

• APC Comment: Potamogeton sulcatus is treated as a distinct taxon in NSW and Vic.
• 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: 92, Plate 19, Fig. 22 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton muricatus Hagstr. legitimate misapplication: Potamogeton natans L. legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 227 misapplication: Potamogeton cheesemanii A.Benn. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 64

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton tricarinatus A.Benn. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton tricarinatus F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Potamogeton muricatus Hagstr. legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Potamogeton cheesemanii A.Benn. legitimate by Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 12, fig.4.

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021. Nuytsia 33: 10 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Excluded taxon. This taxon does not occur in WA. See Papassotiriou et al. (2011). [Papassotiriou, S.E. et al. (2011). Potamogetonaceae. In: Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) Flora of Australia 39: Alismatales to Arales. p. 92.]"

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