Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 510 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1988) No. 2513).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 227 [secondary reference]

Hooker, W.J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1852), Botanical Magazine 78: t. 4647 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 61-62 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 1 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 4 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 32 [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: 135 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Lily [n/a]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 135-139 [secondary reference]

Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 1: 299, 976 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Castalia Salisb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leuconymphaea Kuntze legitimate

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 109, 110, 111 [secondary reference]

Henshall, T.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Ranunculaceae, Menispermaceae, Nymphaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 88 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 170 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Nymphaeaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 179-181 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Nymphaeaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 63 [secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 196 [secondary reference]

• Type: Nymphaea alba L., typ. cons.

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Nymphaeaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 150 [secondary reference]

common name: Waterlilies [n/a]

Koch, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Nymphaeaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 65 [secondary reference]

Schneider, E.L. & Williamson, P.S. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Nymphaeaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 491, Figs. 104 B, 105 D [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Nymphaeaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 31 [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Nymphaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 54-55 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Lilies [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Nymphaeaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 150 [secondary reference]

common name: Waterlilies [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 723 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, SA (naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Porter, C.L. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Nymphaeaceae. Flora of Australia 2: 260-262 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Castalia Salisb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leuconymphaea Kuntze legitimate

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 591, 602 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ondinea Hartog legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Castalia Salisb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leuconymphaea Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ondinea Hartog legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, SA (naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Soltis, D.E., Smith, S.A., Cellinese, N., Wurdack, K.J., Tank, D.C., Brockington, S.F., Refulio-Rodriguez, N.F., Walker, J.B., Moore, M.J., Carlswars, B.S., Bell, C.D., Latvis, M., Crawley, S., Black, C., Diouf, D., Xi, Z., Rushworth, C.A., Gitzendanner, M.A., Sytsma, K.J., Qui, Y., Hilu, K.W., Davis, C.C., Sanderson, M.J., Beaman, R.S., Olmstead, R.G., Judd, W.S., Donoghue, M.J. & Soltis, P.S. (1 April 2011), Angiosperm Phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa. American Journal of Botany 98(4): Fig. 2A [secondary reference]

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