Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 40 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 25 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 269 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 122 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 277 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1: 457 [secondary reference]

• Type: Commelina communis L.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 103 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Jan and Kaspar Commelin, Dutch botanists of the 17th and 18th centuries."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 180 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Jan and Kaspar Commelin, Dutch botanists of the 17th and 17th centuries"

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 429 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1114, 1115 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 9 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Commelinceae,Eriocaulaceae, Centrolepidaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 427 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Commelinaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 76 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. (21 August 1990), Two new species and a new name in Commelina L (Commelinaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 3(2): 235-238 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Commelinaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1020 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Commelinaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 441 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Commelinaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 258 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 418 [secondary reference]

Faden, R.B. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Commelinaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 126 [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Commelinaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 220-222 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 130 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 205 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Commelyna Endl. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Commelina sect. Eucommelina C.B.Clarke nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI, NI, Vic

Zuntini, A.R., Frankel, L.P., Pokorny, L., Forest, F. & Baker, W.J. (18 July 2021), A comprehensive phylogenomic study of the monocot order Commelinales, with a new classification of Commelinaceae. American Journal of Botany 108(7): 1086 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Tapheocarpa Conran legitimate

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