Borkhausen, M.B. (1797), Botanisches Worterbuch 1: 315 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Hyacinthus L.

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: 188-193, Figs. 89-91 [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), Hyacinthaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 779-780 [secondary reference]

Godden, D.C. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Hyacinthaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 98 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 501-502, 503-504 [secondary reference]

Speta, F. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Hyacinthaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 261-285, Fig. 81-86 [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: 313 [secondary reference]

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 81 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Scillaceae Vest legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ornithogalaceae Salisb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lachenaliaceae Salisb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eucomidaceae Salisb. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Asparagaceae Juss. nom. cons.

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

taxonomic synonym of: Asparagaceae Juss. nom. cons.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Hyacinthinae Borkh. orth. var.

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: Asparagaceae Juss. nom. cons.

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