Thouars, L.M.A. du Petit- (17 November 1806), Genera Nova Madagascariensia: 2 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: See note by M.-H.Sachet & F.R.Fosberg, Taxon 22 (1973) 439–443.

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): 45 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 115 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 519 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 50 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek hals, halos, the sea; philos, lover."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 53 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek hals, halos, the sea; philos, lover"

Hartog, C. den (December 1957), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 5(4): 407-413 [secondary reference]

Thompson, J. (1961), Hydrocharitaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 18: 83-84 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 424 [secondary reference]

Doty, M.S. & Stone, B.C. (1967), Typification of the generic name Halophila Thouars. Taxon 16: 417 [secondary reference]

• Type: Halophila madagascariensis Doty & Stone

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 220-224 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1053, 1054 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 20 [secondary reference]

Robertson, E.L. in Womersley, H.B S. (1984), Seagrasses. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia 1: 60-61 [secondary reference]

common name: Paddleweed [n/a]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 716-717 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 7 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 966 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 13 [secondary reference]

common name: Seawracks [n/a]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 135 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Hydrocharitaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 12 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 405 [secondary reference]

Cook, C.D.K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Hydrocharitaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 247, Fig. 61M,N [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 315 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Barkania Ehrenb. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Lemnopsis Zipp. ex Zoll. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Aschersonia F.Muell. ex Benth. nom. inval., pro syn.

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 387 [secondary reference]

Kuo, J. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Halophila. Flora of Australia 39: 36-37 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Barkania Ehrenb. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Lemnopsis Zipp. ex Zoll. legitimate

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