Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 188 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Roper and Van Alphen Rivers, F. Mueller. Queensland. Brisbane River, F. Mueller; Bailey. N.S. Wales. Richmond River, Fawcett; Clarence River, Wilcox."

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

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 276 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 583 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 254 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Aponogeton crispus Thunb. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(68): 216

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 4 [secondary reference]

Thompson, J. (1961), Aponogetonaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 14: 76 [secondary reference]

Bruggen, H.W.E. van (1969), Revision of the genus Aponogeton (Aponogetonaceae). III. The species of Australia. Blumea 17(1): 127-136 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "F. von Mueller s.n., S.E. Queensland, Brisbane River, Dec. 1856 (K)."

misapplication: Aponogeton crispus Thunb. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(68): 216

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 218 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 192 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 8 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 29 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 8 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Aponogetonaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 12 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Aponogeton elongatus f. latifolius H.Bruggen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Aponogeton elongatus f. longifolius H.Bruggen legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Aponogetonaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 962, Fig. 291A [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Aponogetonaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 11 [secondary reference]

Hellquist, C.B. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (21 December 1998), Aponogetonaceae of Australia, with descriptions of six new taxa. Telopea 8(1): 18 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 57 [secondary reference]

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

misapplied to: Aponogeton euryspermus Hellq. & S.W.L.Jacobs legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 4

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Aponogeton euryspermus Hellq. & S.W.L.Jacobs legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 29

Hellquist, C.B. & Jacobs, S.W.L. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Aponogetonaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 52 APC [secondary reference]

misapplication: Aponogeton crispus Thunb. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(68): 216

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

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