Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 42 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Xyris indica L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 25 [secondary reference]

Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1805), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 1(2-4): 14 [secondary reference]

Vahl, M.(H.) (1805), Enumeratio Plantarum 2: 204-207 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 122 [secondary reference]

Nilsson, A. (1892), Studien Uber die Xyrideen. Kunglliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar n.s 24(14): 25 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 278 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 102 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "The Greek name for a species of Iris."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 179 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "The Greek name for a species of Iris"

Royen, P. van (March 1953), Xyridaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(4): 367-368 [secondary reference]

Wakefield, N.A. (1954), The Western Australian species of Xyris. Western Australian Naturalist 4: 75-83 [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: 431 [secondary reference]

Evans, O.D. (1966), Xyridaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 27: 1-8 [secondary reference]

Evans, O.D. (15 September 1966), The Xyris gracilis complex. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 4(1): 1-8 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1110, 1111 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 59 [secondary reference]

Marchant, N.G. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Xyridaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 864-865 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Xyridaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 79 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Xyridaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1023-1024 [secondary reference]

Doust, A.N. & Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Xyridaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 261 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 173 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Xyridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 33-34 [secondary reference]

Doust, A.N. & Conn, B.J. (26 October 1994), Xyris L. section Xyris (Xyridaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 7(5): 455-484 [secondary reference]

• Type: X. indica L.

Conn, B.J. & Doust, A.N.L. (20 June 1997), Xyris L. section Pomatoxyris Endl. (Xyridaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10(2): 189-248 [secondary reference]

Kral, R. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Xyridaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 468 [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Xyridaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 219-220 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 465 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 917 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Xuris Raf. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

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