Fraser, C. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1830), Journal of a two months residence on the banks of the rivers Brisbane and Logan, on the east coast of New Holland. Botanical Miscellany 1: 257 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "...we arrived at a beautiful lagoon... Here we took the latitude, 27°56′ South."

Grisebach, A.H.R. (1838), Genera et Species Gentianearum adjectis Observationibus Quibusdam Phytogeographicis: 346 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Nova Hollandia in distr. Swan River 28° Lat. A. (Fraser!)."

Grisebach, A.H.R. (1838), Genera et Species Gentianearum adjectis Observationibus Quibusdam Phytogeographicis: 347 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Limnanthemum fraserianum Griseb. nom. illeg.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: . [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Villarsia nymphaeaefolia C.Fraser orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Limnanthemum fraserianum Griseb. nom. illeg.

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