Bailey, F.M. (1885), Catalogue of plants in the two metropolitan gardens, the Brisbane Botanic Garden and Bowen Park: 5 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "One pool is entirely occupied ... in the Acclimatisation Garden."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Nelumbonaceae. Flora of Australia 2: 258 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. legitimate

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