Araliaceae Juss.
Hydrocotyle L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 234 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: (not designated).
Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 109 [secondary reference]
Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2, Appendix III: - [secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 337 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 82 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 62 [secondary reference]
Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 449-450 BHL [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 152, 295 [secondary reference]
common name: White Rot [n/a]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 228 [secondary reference]
Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 141-142 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 435-436 [secondary reference]
common name: Pennywort [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From Greek hydor, water; kotyle, a dish or plate: alluding to the shape of the leaves slightly depressed in the centre."
Hitchcock, A.S. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 138 [secondary reference]
  • Type: Hydrocotyle vulgaris L.
Buwalda, P. (December 1949), Umbelliferae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(2): 115-116 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 650 [secondary reference]
common name: Pennywort [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From Greek hydor, water; kotyle, a dish or plate: alluding to the shape of the leaves slightly depressed in the centre."
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 329 [secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 244-245 [secondary reference]
Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 247 [secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 281-282 [secondary reference]
Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 172 [secondary reference]
Boyland, D.E. & Stanley, T.D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Umbelliferae (Apiaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 268 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 66 [secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Apiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 242 [secondary reference]
Eichler, Hj. (1987), Nomenclatural and bibliographic survey of Hydrocotyle L. Feddes Repertorium Beiheft 98: 1-51, 145-196, 273-351 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Apiaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 507-508 [secondary reference]
Hastings, S.M. & Wiecek, B.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Hydrocotyle. Flora of New South Wales 3: 98 [secondary reference]
common name: Pennyworts [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Apiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 682 [secondary reference]
Orchard, A.E. (1993), Apiaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 316 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "from the greek hydro (water), and kotyle (a dish or plate), in reference to the round leaf with slightly depressed centres characteristic of some species."
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 267 [secondary reference]
Duretto, M.F. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Apiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 273-274 [secondary reference]
Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Apiaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 122 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 481 [secondary reference]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 30 [secondary reference]
State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 421 [secondary reference]
National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Hydrocotyle sect. Euhydrocotyle DC. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Hydrocotyle sect. Dicranophora F.Muell. nom. inval.
  • APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (native and naturalised), ACT, Vic (native and naturalised), Tas, MI
Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Hydrocotyle sect. Euhydrocotyle DC. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Hydrocotyle sect. Dicranophora F.Muell. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Neosciadium Domin legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (native and naturalised), ACT, Vic (native and naturalised), Tas, MI