Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 970 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 417 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 345 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 121 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Spirodela Schleid. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 275 [secondary reference]

common name: Duckweed [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 580 [secondary reference]

common name: Duckweed [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, 1: 447 [secondary reference]

• Type: Lemna trisulca L.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 99 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek name of a water-plant."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 172 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek name of a water-plant"

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 453 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 91 [secondary reference]

Hartog, C. den & Plas, F. van der (1970), A synopsis of the Lemnaceae. Blumea 18(2/2): 360-364 [secondary reference]

Plas, F. van der (1971), Lemnaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(1): 226-235 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 249-252 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1100 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 24 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Lemnaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 734-735 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Lemnaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 274 [secondary reference]

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Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Lemnaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 30 [secondary reference]

Landolt, E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Lemnaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 269, Fig. 68D-K [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Lemnaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 216 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 340 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 478 [secondary reference]

Landolt, E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Lemnaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 277 [secondary reference]

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