Tate, R. in Spencer, W.B. (ed.) (March 1896), Botany. Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia 3: 179, 191 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Sandhills, Eagle Plain; between Laurie's Creek and Glen Edith!, as observed by Gosse; Rudall's Creek (E. Giles). Missionary Plain one mile north of Pine Point, and south side of valley of Carmichael Creek!."

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 255 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. & Murray, L.R. (1963), Poisonous Plants of the Northern Territory: 32, Pl. 1B [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 84 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 228 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Liliaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 424, Fig. 544K [secondary reference]

common name: Grass tree [n/a] common name: blackboy [n/a] common name: yacca [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 49 [secondary reference]

Bedford, D.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Xanthorrhoea. Flora of Australia 46: 160, Map 198 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 81 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Xanthorrhoea thorntoni Tate orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA

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