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: 186, 280, fig. 14 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "South Bay, Bickerton Island (waterhole in sandstone hills): 455. Hyd. Type–Brisbane (BRI)."

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 254 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 111 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 48 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Menyanthaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 134, Fig. 27, 28 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Nymphoides furculaefolia Specht orth. var.

• APC Dist.: NT

Aston, H.I. (28 July 2009), Notes on Australian taxa of Nymphoides (Menyanthaceae): typification and nomenclature. Muelleria 27(2): 123-124 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Nymphoides furculaefolia Specht orth. var.

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