Cunningham, A. (1839), Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor. Annals of Natural History 4: 26 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "New Zealand (Northern Island). In a bog at Tauraki, Hokianga river. – 1833, R. Cunningham."

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

taxonomic synonym of: Elatine minima (Nutt.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey. legitimate

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 179 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Elatine americana (Pursh) Arn. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Elatine americana var. australiensis Benth. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 579, Fig. 757 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Elatine americana var. australiensis Benth. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Elatine americana var. australiensis Benth. legitimate

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]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 227 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Water Wort [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): 249 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Elatine americana var. australiensis Benth. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Elatine americana var. australiensis Benth. legitimate

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 499 [secondary reference]

common name: Waterwort [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Elatine americana var. australiensis Benth. legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Elatine triandra Schkuhr legitimate

Verdon, D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Elatinaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 228, Fig. 266B [secondary reference]

common name: Waterwort [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 117 [secondary reference]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 139 [secondary reference]

common name: Waterwort [n/a]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Elatinaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 106, Fig. 13B [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Elatine americana var. australiensis Benth. legitimate common name: Waterwort [n/a]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 29 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Waterwort [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Elatinaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 314, Fig. 62a-c [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Elatine americana (Pursh) Arn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Elatine americana var. australiensis Benth. legitimate common name: Waterwort [n/a]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1: 73 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Elatinaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 492 [secondary reference]

common name: Waterwort [n/a]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Elatinaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 71, Fig. 14 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Waterwort [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Elatine americana var. callitriche Hook.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Elatine americana var. australiensis Benth. legitimate misapplication: Elatine americana (Pursh) Arn. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (10 June 1852), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae 1(1): 27 misapplication: Elatine minima (Nutt.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 195-196 misapplication: Elatine americana (Pursh) Arn. legitimate by 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: 55 misapplication: Elatine americana (Pursh) Arn. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1899), The Queensland Flora 1: 199 misapplication: Elatine triandra Schkuhr legitimate by Backer, C.A. (December 1951), Elatinaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(3): 206

• APC Comment: Australian material may not represent Elatine gratioloides sens. str. (see D.E.Albrecht, Nuytsia 14:319).
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 36 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Elatine americana (Pursh) Arn. legitimate by Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 178-179

---