Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 309 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 146 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1909), Botany. Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. Queensland Agricultural Journal 23: 158 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 557 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 111 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek asphodelos, some liliaceous plant."

Hitchcock, A.S. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 146 [secondary reference]

• Type: Asphodelus ramosus L.

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 196 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek asphodelos, some liliaceous plant"

Ingram, J.W. (1964), Baileya; a Quarterly Journal of Horticultural Taxonomy: 1-10 [secondary reference]

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

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Liliaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 423 [secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Asphodelus. Flora of Australia 45: 232, 234 APC [secondary reference]

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

Macfarlane, T.D. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Asphodelaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 778 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Liliaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 38 [secondary reference]

Godden, D.C. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Asphodelaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 82 [secondary reference]

Conran, J.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Liliaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 667 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Liliaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 380 [secondary reference]

Smith, G.F. & van Wyk, B.-E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Asphodelaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: Fig. 41 A-E [secondary reference]

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

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]

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