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• Type: "Commerson a trouvé cette belle espèce aux environs de Monte-Video, près de Buenos-Ayres, dans les sables voisins de la mer. (v.s.)"

Sprengel, C.P.J. in Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (1820), Umbelliferae. Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 6: 345 [basionym]

basionym of: Hydrocotyle umbellata var. bonariensis (Lam.) Spreng. legitimate

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Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 247 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 66 [secondary reference]

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Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Apiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 244, Fig. 35G [secondary reference]

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nomenclatural synonym: Hydrocotyle umbellata var. bonariensis (Lam.) Spreng. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

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