Loefling, P. (1758), Iter Hispanicum: 305 [tax. nov.]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Commelinaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 75 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 419 [secondary reference]

Faden, R.B. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Commelinaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 123 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 138 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised)

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