Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 158-159 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in India."

Choisy, J.D. (1833), Convolvulaceae Orientales. Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve 6(2): 444 [basionym]

basionym of: Ipomoea reptans (L.) Poir. ex Choisy legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ipomoea aquatica Forssk. legitimate

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