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 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Caulinia ovalis R.Br. legitimate

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

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

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 255-256 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia ovalis R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Halophila ovata Gaudich. nom. illeg.

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

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 5 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 53, Fig. 49 [secondary reference]

Hartog, C. den (December 1957), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 5(4): 408-410 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia ovalis R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Kernera ovalis (R.Br.) Schult. & Schult.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Halophila ovata Gaudich. nom. illeg.

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 189 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia ovalis R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Halophila ovata Gaudich. nom. illeg.

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]

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 77-78 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia ovalis R.Br. legitimate vernacular name: Sea-wrack [n/a]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 219 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 221-223 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Black, J.M. (1978), Flora of South Australia Edn. 3, 1: 86 [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: 64, Figs 10, 11 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia ovalis R.Br. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 29 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 41 [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), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 717 [secondary reference]

common name: Sea Wrack [n/a]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 7, Fig. 1B [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia ovalis R.Br. legitimate common name: Sea Wrack [n/a]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 966, Fig. 291G [secondary reference]

common name: Sea Wrack [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 13-14 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym of: Halophila australis Doty & B.C.Stone legitimate

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Halophila australis Doty & B.C.Stone legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia ovalis R.Br. legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 212 [secondary reference]

common name: Sea Wrack [n/a]

Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997), Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands: 102-104 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Halophila minor (Zoll.) Hartog legitimate common name: Sea wrack [n/a]

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

common name: Sea Wrack [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia ovalis R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Halophila ovalis (R.Br.) Hook.f. subsp. ovalis legitimate taxonomic synonym: Halophila ovata Gaudich. nom. illeg. misapplication: Kernera ovalis (R.Br.) Schult. & Schult.f. legitimate by Schultes, J.A. & Schultes, J.H. (1829), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 7(1): 170

• APC Comment: Treated as H. ovalis subsp. ovalis in Qld.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW, LHI

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Halophila australis Doty & B.C.Stone legitimate by Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 221-223

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Halophila australis Doty & B.C.Stone legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 229

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Halophila australis Doty & B.C.Stone legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 77-78

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Halophila australis Doty & B.C.Stone legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Black, J.M. (1978), Flora of South Australia Edn. 3, 1: 86

Kuo, J. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Halophila. Flora of Australia 39: 41, Fig. 9L-O [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia ovalis R.Br. legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 89 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Halophila australis Doty & B.C.Stone legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 229

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