Richard, L.C.M. (1815), Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 1: 368, t. 18 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Hydrocleys commersonii Rich.

Aston, H.I. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (26 May 1980), Hydrocleys nymphoides (Butomaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 4(3): 285-293 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1048, 1049 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 124 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 404 [secondary reference]

Haynes, R.R., Les, D.H. & Holm-Nielsen, L.B. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Limnocharitaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 274, Figs. 70G,H, 71 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Hydrocleis Buchenau orth. var.

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 420 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McColl, K.A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Limnocharitaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 1 [secondary reference]

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