Stearn, W.T. (1957), Baileya; a Quarterly Journal of Horticultural Taxonomy 5: 198, fig. 57 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Tradescantia spathacea Sw. legitimate

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Commelinaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 442 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Tradescantia spathacea Sw. legitimate common name: Moses-in-a-cradle [n/a]

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 24 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tradescantia spathacea Sw. legitimate

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