Colchicaceae DC.
Wurmbea Thunb. , legitimate, scientific
Thunberg, C.P. (1781), Nova Genera Plantarum 1: 18 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Wurmbea capensis Thunb.
  • Etymology: "Nomen dedimus in honorem D ni FR. v. WURMBS, Lib. Baronis & hodie in Batavia Societat. ind. orient. Mercator. celebr. Societ. Scientiar. Batav. Secretar. Histor. naturalis uti & aliarum scientiarum peritiss. eorumque Cultorum Patroni faventissimi."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 117 BHL [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Anguillaria R.Br. nom. cons. pro parte taxonomic synonym: Melanthium L. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 198 BHL [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Anguillaria R.Br. nom. cons. pro parte taxonomic synonym: Melanthium L. legitimate
Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 185-186, 198 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: Named after F.V. Wurmbe, a Dutch naturalist.
Macfarlane, T.D. (30 December 1980), A revision of Wurmbea (Liliaceae) in Australia. Brunonia 3(2): 145-208 [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Wurmbaea Steud. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Anguillaria R.Br. nom. cons.
Macfarlane, T.D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Wurmbea. Flora of Central Australia: 421 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 51 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Anguillaria R.Br. nom. cons.
Macfarlane, T.D. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Wurmbea. Flora of Australia 45: 387-404 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Anguillaria R.Br. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Anguillaria 2. Glossocodon Endl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Anguillaria sect. Glossocodon (Endl.) Pfeiff. legitimate
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Wurmbea. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 787 [secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Liliaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 40 [secondary reference]
Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 34 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Anguillaria R.Br. nom. cons.
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Colchicaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 110 [secondary reference]
Conran, J.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Liliaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 682 [secondary reference]
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Liliaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 396 [secondary reference]
Nordenstam, R.B. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Colchicaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 182 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 259 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Wurmbaea Steud. orth. var. orthographic variant: Wurmbsea F.Muell. orth. var. orthographic variant: Anguillaraea T.Post & Kuntze orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Anguillaria R.Br. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Anguillaria sect. Glossocodon (Endl.) Pfeiff. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 913 [secondary reference]
Manning, J.C. & Goldblatt, P. (2012), Plants of the greater Cape floristic region: 1: The Core Cape Flora. Strelitzia 29: 803-804 [secondary reference]