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

• Type: "Habitat in Europae paludibus sossis."

Schleiden, M.J. (1839), Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde: 391 [basionym]

basionym of: Spirodela polyrhiza (L.) Schleid. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(67): 188 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 164 [secondary reference]

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

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

Plas, F. van der (1971), Lemnaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(1): 224 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Spirodela polyrhiza (L.) Schleid. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Spirodela polyrhiza (L.) Schleid. legitimate

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Lemnaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 37 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Spirodela polyrhiza (L.) Schleid. legitimate

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 170 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Spirodela polyrhiza (L.) Schleid. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Spirodela polyrhiza (L.) Schleid. legitimate

Landolt, E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Lemnaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 276 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Spirodela polyrhiza (L.) Schleid. legitimate

Iamonico, D. & Iberite, M. (2014), Lectotypification of the Linnaean names Lemna arrhiza and L. polyrhiza (Araceae. Taxon 63(6): 1314-1315 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (designated here): [illustration in] Micheli, Nov. Pl. Gen.: t. 11, Lenticularia fig. 1. 1729. - Image of lectotype available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=2801&Pagina=269"

Iamonico, D. & Iberite, M. (2014), Lectotypification of the Linnaean names Lemna arrhiza and L. polyrhiza (Araceae. Taxon 63(6): 1314 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Spirodela polyrhiza (L.) Schleid. legitimate

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