Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 119 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 55 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (18 September 1854), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the colony of Victoria. Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria 1: 10 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 295-298 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Rotala L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ameletia DC. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 49 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 214 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 577 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Ammannia latifolia L.

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 401 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Johannes Ammann, 1707-42, German botanist, Fellow of the Royal Society of London and professor of botany at St. Petersberg."

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 599 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Johannes Ammann, 1707-42, German botanist, Fellow of the Royal Society of London and professor of botany at St. Petersberg."

Mitchell, A.S. (15 October 1976), A summary of the family Lythraceae in the Northern Territory (with additional comments on Australian material). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1(1): 57 [secondary reference]

Cook, C.D.K. (1979), A revision of the genus Rotala (Lythraceae). Boissiera 29: 13 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Rotala L. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 142 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Lythraceae. Flora of Central Australia: 233 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Lythraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 117 [secondary reference]

Graham, S.A.T. (1990), Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 66: 97-100, 321 [secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Ammania. Flora of Australia 18: 97-100 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

Highet, J. & Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Lythraceae. Flora of New South Wales 2: 199 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Lythraceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 490 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 132-133 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Lythraceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 909 [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 105 [secondary reference]

Highet, J. & Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Lythraceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 233 [secondary reference]

Graham, S.A.T. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Lythraceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 9: 236, Fig. 80 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 37 [secondary reference]

Graham, S.A.T. & Gandhi, K. (2013), Nomenclatural changes resulting from the transfer of Nesaea and Hionanthera to Ammannia (Lythraceae). Harvard Papers in Botany 18(1): 72 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Nesaea Comm. ex Kunth nom. cons.

Wilde, W.J.J.O. de & Duyfjes, B.E.E. (2014), Ammannia (Lythraceae) in Malesia. Blumea 59: 11 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Nesaea Comm. ex Kunth nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Ammannia sect. Eustylia Koehne legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ammannia subg. Euammannia Koehne nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

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