Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 963 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Asiae, Africae, Americae meridionalibus, natans."

Blake, S.T. (1954), Botanical contributions of the Northern Australia Regional Survey. II. Studies on miscellaneous northern Australian plants. Australian Journal of Botany 2(1): 103 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 226 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 194-197 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 44 [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]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Araceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 733-734 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Lettuce [n/a]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Araceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 271 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Lettuce [n/a]

Hay, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Araceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 36 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Lettuce [n/a]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Araceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 215-216, Pl. 41, Fig. 45 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Lettuce [n/a]

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

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT, Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Hay, A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Araceae. Flora of Australia 39: 274, Plate 63, Fig. 60 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Lettuce [n/a]

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