Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 313 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 147 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 281 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 117 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Asparagopsis (Kunth) Kunth nom. illeg.

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 553 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1: 513 [secondary reference]

• Type: Asparagus officinalis L.

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 186 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-latin asparagus or aspharagus, name of the plant; probably of Persian origin"

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 433 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 81 [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: 142 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Asparagopsis (Kunth) Kunth nom. illeg.

Jessop, J.P. (1979), Liliaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 9(1): 215-217 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Asparagopsis (Kunth) Kunth nom. illeg.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1208, 1211 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 24 [secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T. & Conran, J.G. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Asparagus. Flora of Australia 45: 159 [secondary reference]

Macfarlane, T.D. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Asparagaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 736-737 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Liliaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 23 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 155 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Protasparagus Oberm. legitimate

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Asparagaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 45 [secondary reference]

Malcomber, S.T. & Demissew, S. (1993), The status of Protasparagus and Myrsiphyllum in the Asparagaceae. Kew Bulletin 48(1): 63 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Myrsiphyllum Willd. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Protasparagus Oberm. legitimate

Conran, J.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Liliaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 640 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 504 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Liliaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 369-370 [secondary reference]

Kubitzki, K. & Rudall, P.J. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Asparagaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 128, Fig. 40 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Protasparagus Oberm. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 252 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 78 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Myrsiphyllum Willd. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Asparagopsis (Kunth) Kunth nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Asparagus subg. Asparagopsis Baker legitimate taxonomic synonym: Elachanthera F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Luzuriaga sect. Elachanthera (F.Muell.) K.Krause legitimate taxonomic synonym: Protasparagus Oberm. legitimate

• APC Comment: Protasparagus is recognised as a distinct taxon in NT.
• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, SA (naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 73-74 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Protasparagus Oberm. legitimate

Chase, M.W., Reveal, J.L. & Fay, M.F. (2009), A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 135 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Elachanthera F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Luzuriaga sect. Elachanthera (F.Muell.) K.Krause legitimate taxonomic synonym: Protasparagus Oberm. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, SA (naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised), Tas (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. 2B [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Elachanthera F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Luzuriaga sect. Elachanthera (F.Muell.) K.Krause legitimate taxonomic synonym: Protasparagus Oberm. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, SA (naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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