Ascherson, P.F.A. in Neumeyer, G.B. von (1875), Anleitung zu Wissenschaftlichen Beobachtungen auf Reisen: 368 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Caulinia spinulosa R.Br. legitimate

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]

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

Hartog, C. den (December 1957), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 5(4): 412-413 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia spinulosa R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Kernera spinulosa (R.Br.) Schult. & Schult.f. legitimate

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

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]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia spinulosa R.Br. legitimate common name: A Sea Grass [n/a]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 967, Fig. 291H [secondary reference]

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]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia spinulosa R.Br. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Kuo, J. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Halophila. Flora of Australia 39: 42, Plate 12, Fig. 10A-C [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia spinulosa R.Br. legitimate

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