Scopoli, J.A. [G.A.] (1772), Flora Carniolica Edn. 2, 2: 251 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

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): 338 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 359 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 192 [secondary reference]

Mason, R. (1959), Callitriche in New Zealand and Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 7(3): 321-323 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 176 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 213 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 57-59 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 195, Fig. 48 [secondary reference]

Orchard, A.E. (13 May 1980), Callitriche (Callitrichaceae) in South Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 2(2): 193 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 465 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Chickweed [n/a] common name: Common Starwort [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 96 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 109 [secondary reference]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 138 [secondary reference]

common name: Common starwort [n/a]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Callitrichaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 378 [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), Callitrichaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 567 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Starwort [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Callitrichaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 623 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Starwort [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Callitrichaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 462, Fig. 90d [secondary reference]

common name: Common Water-starwort [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 544 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Starwort [n/a]

Jessup, L.W. (22 April 2002), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 2 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [secondary reference]

Lansdown, R.V. (2006), Notes on the water-starworts (Callitriche) recorded in Europe. Watsonia 26(2): 108 [secondary reference]

• Neotype: "Aberleri Fields, Borth, Cards 22/61209160, 20 July 1998, Chater, A.O. (NMW); designated here."

Bean, A.R. (30 November 2007), A taxonomic revision of Callitriche L. (Callitrichaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 7(3): 551-552, Map 1G [secondary reference]

common name: Common water-starwort [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

misapplication: Callitriche verna L. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (May 1931), Part III. Geraniaceae–Compositae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 74 misapplication: Callitriche verna L. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 537, Fig. 689 misapplication: Callitriche verna L. legitimate by Blackall, W.E. & Grieve, B.J. (1954), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the temperate regions of Western Australia 1: 267

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 28 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Callitriche verna L. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xcv misapplication: Callitriche verna L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 492

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