Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 969 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae, Virginiae sossis, fluviis."

Hooker, J.D. (3 May 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(6): 43 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(68): 217 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Lepilaena preissii (Lehm.) F.Muell. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (3 May 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(6): 43

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 229 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Lepilaena preissii (Lehm.) F.Muell. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (3 May 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(6): 43

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 37 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 325 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 60 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Zannichelliaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 30 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: SA, NSW

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McColl, K.A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Zannichelliaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 111, Fig. 25NH-O [secondary reference]

Brown, G.K. (December 2021), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2020 to 2021. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2021: 12 [secondary reference]

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