Candolle, A.P. de (1804), Essai Sur les Proprietes Medicales des Plantes: 56 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Colchicum L., 1753

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1210 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1210 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Liliaceae Juss. nom. cons.

Dahlgren, R.M.T., Clifford, H.T. & Yeo, P.F. (1985), The Families of the Monocotyledons: 226-229, Fig. 106-107 [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), Colchicaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 785 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Colchicaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1003 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Colchicaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 108-109 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 482, 483 [secondary reference]

Nordenstam, R.B. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Colchicaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 175-185, Figs. 55-58 [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: 16 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 258 [secondary reference]

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 417 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Uvulariaceae A.Gray ex Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Petermanniaceae Hutch. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Burchardiaceae Takht. legitimate

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 77 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Merenderaceae Mirb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uvulariaceae A.Gray ex Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Bulbocodiaceae Salisb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Burchardiaceae Takht. legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Cochicaceae DC. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Uvulariaceae A.Gray ex Kunth legitimate

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 201-202, 931 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Uvulariaceae A.Gray ex Kunth 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 [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: Autumn Crocus [n/a]

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