Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 620 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Angliae, Helvetiae, Galliae humidis. ♂"

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 515 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Betony [n/a] common name: Water Figwort [n/a]

Turland, N.J. (1 August 1996), (1251) Proposal to reject the name Scrophularia aquatica (Scrophulariaceae). Taxon 45: 561 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1999), Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 48. Taxon 48(2): 362 [secondary reference]

• Text: "(1251) Reject Scrophularia aquatica L. (Scrophulariaceae)... Votes: 12 : 0 (recommended)."

Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (1999), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania Edn. 3: 48 [secondary reference]

Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (1999), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania Edn. 3: 48 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Scrophularia auriculata L. nom. cons. by Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 515

Nicolson, D.H. (May 1999), Report of the General Committee: 8. Taxon 48(2): 377 [secondary reference]

• Text: "... the following proposals are here approved: (1251) rej. Scrophularia aquatica."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Scrophularia auriculata L. nom. cons. by Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 515

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Scrophularia auriculata L. nom. cons. by Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (1999), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania Edn. 3: 48

Barker, W.R. & Brodie, C.J. (2015), The range of Scrophularia (Scrophulariaceae) significantly extended in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 162-163: 23 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Scrophularia auriculata L. nom. cons. by Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 515

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 77 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Scrophularia auriculata L. nom. cons. by Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 515

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