Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(45): 138 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ad fluvios Tweed et Don's River; Oldf. Maxw. Prope urbem Hamden, Clarke."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 90 [basionym]

basionym of: Limnanthemum violifolium (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 430 [basionym]

basionym of: Renealmia violifolia (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

Aston, H.I. (25 February 1969), The genus Villarsia (Menyanthaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 2(1): 27-29 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 141 [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), Menyanthaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 544 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 666 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Limnanthemum violifolium (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Renealmia violifolia (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

Tippery, N.P. & Les, D.H. (2009), A new genus and new combinations in Australian Villarsia (Menyanthaceae). Novon 19: 409 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Australia. Western Australia: Don River, s.d., R. C. Maxwell s.n. (lectotype, designated here, MEL).

Tippery, N.P. & Les, D.H. (2009), A new genus and new combinations in Australian Villarsia (Menyanthaceae). Novon 19: 409 [basionym]

basionym of: Liparophyllum violifolium (F.Muell.) Tippery & Les legitimate

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