Bailey, F.M. (1899), The Queensland Flora 1: 39 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Waters of the Northern parts of the colony."

misapplication: Nymphaea caerulea Savigny legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1883), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora: 10

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

common name: Small Blue Water-Lily [n/a]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 229 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Nymphaea gigantea var. violacea (Lehm.) Conard legitimate

Henshall, T.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Ranunculaceae, Menispermaceae, Nymphaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 89 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Nymphaea gigantea Hook. legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Nymphaeaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 180 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Nymphaea gigantea Hook. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Nymphaea violacea Lehm. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Porter, C.L. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Nymphaeaceae. Flora of Australia 2: 265 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Nymphaea violacea Lehm. legitimate

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