Jussieu, A.L. de (4 August 1789), Genera Plantarum: 51 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Asphodelus L.

Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2, Appendix III: 576 [secondary reference]

Dahlgren, R.M.T., Clifford, H.T. & Yeo, P.F. (1985), The Families of the Monocotyledons: 179-182, Figs. 82-83 [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), Asphodelaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 778 [secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T., Conran, J.G. & Thongpukdee, A. (1992), Australian Lilies: Native and Naturalised species. Australian Plants 16(132): 368 [secondary reference]

Godden, D.C. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Asphodelaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 81 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 511, 512 [secondary reference]

Smith, G.F. & van Wyk, B.-E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Asphodelaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 130-140, Fig. 41-43 [secondary reference]

Chase, M.W., Soltis, D.E., Soltis, P.S., Rudall, P.J., Fay, M.F., Hahn, W.H., Sullivan, S., Joseph, J., Molvray, M., Kores, P.J., Givnish, T.J., Sytsma, J.J. & Pires, J.C. in Wilson, K.L. & Morrison, D.A. (ed.) (2000), Higher-level systematics of the monocotyledons: An assessment of current knowledge and a new classification. Monocots: Systematics and Evolution: 15 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 253 [secondary reference]

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 80 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Aloaceae Batsch legitimate taxonomic synonym: Aloineae Link legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Asphodeli Juss. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Aloaceae Batsch legitimate

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 74, 932 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Aloaceae Batsch legitimate

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 109 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Xanthorrhoeaceae Dumort. nom. cons.

Klopper, R.R., Smith, G.F. & Van Wyk, A.E. (2013), (2129) Proposal to conserve the family name Asphodelaceae (Spermatophyta: Magnoliidae: Asparagales). Taxon 62(2): 402-403 [secondary reference]

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 29 (photo) [secondary reference]

common name: Onion Weed [n/a]

Wilson, K.L. (October 2016), Report of the General Committee: 15. Taxon 65(5): 1150 [secondary reference]

• Text: "... (2129) cons."

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