Hutchinson, J. (1934), Families of Flowering Plants Monocot., 2: 113 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Petermannia F. Muell.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1227 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Smilacaceae Vent. nom. cons.

Dahlgren, R.M.T., Clifford, H.T. & Yeo, P.F. (1985), The Families of the Monocotyledons: 128, Fig. 52 [secondary reference]

Conran, J.G. & Clifford, H.T. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Appendix: Smilacaceae. Flora of Australia 46: 230 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Petermannioideae Conran & Clifford legitimate

Conran, J.G. & Clifford, H.T. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Smilacaceae. Flora of Australia 46: 181 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Petermannioideae Conran & Clifford legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Petermanniaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 67-69 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Petermanniaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 40 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 521, 522 [secondary reference]

Conran, J.G. & Clifford, H.T. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Petermanniaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 406-408, Fig. 113 [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): 433 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Colchicaceae DC. nom. cons.

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

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

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 650, 931 [secondary reference]

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]

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