Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 367 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 451 [secondary reference]

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: 335 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 195 [secondary reference]

common name: Waterwort [n/a]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 178 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 8 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 14 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 49 [secondary reference]

common name: Waterwort [n/a]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 538 [secondary reference]

• Type: Elatine hydropiper L.

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 390 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-latin name of some plant believed to be a Linaria."

Backer, C.A. (December 1951), Elatinaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(3): 205-206 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 579 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-latin name of some plant believed to be a Linaria."

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 76 [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: 149 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 257 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 74-76 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 80 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 111 [secondary reference]

Verdon, D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Elatinaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 228 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Elatinaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 106 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Elatinaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 492 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Elatinaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 314 [secondary reference]

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Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 588 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 301 [secondary reference]

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