Harvey, W.H. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), Characters of some new genera of plants recently discovered by Mr. James Drummond in Western Australia. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 7: 57 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Lepilaena australis Harvey

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 179 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hexatheca Benth. nom. inval., pro syn.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 121 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hexatheca F.Muell. nom. inval., pro syn. pro parte taxonomic synonym: Zannichellia L. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 47 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek lepis, a scale; laina, a cloak"

Thompson, J. (1961), Zannichelliaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 11: 72-73 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 36 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 311-319 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1069 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 60 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Monocots (Alismataceae to Najadaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 419 [secondary reference]

Robertson, E.L. in Womersley, H.B S. (1984), Seagrasses. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia 1: 76-77 [secondary reference]

common name: Water-mats [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), Zannichelliaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 732 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Zannichelliaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 30 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 157 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Zannichelliaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 22 [secondary reference]

Haynes, R.R., Les, D.H. & Holm-Nielsen, L.B. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Zannichelliaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 473 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 469 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 481 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hexatheca Benth. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Hexatheca F.Muell. nom. inval., pro syn.

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

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McColl, K.A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Zannichelliaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 106 [secondary reference]

Ito, Y., Tanaka, N., Garcia-Murillo, P. & Muasya, A.M. (2016), A new delimitation of the Afro-Eurasian plant genus Althenia to include its Australasian relative, Lepilaena (Potamogetonaceae) – Evidence from DNA and morphological data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 98: 267 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Althenia F.Petit legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Althenia F.Petit legitimate

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