Airy Shaw, H.K. (1965), Diagnoses of new families, new names, etc., for the seventh edition of Willis's Dictionary. Kew Bulletin 18(2): 265 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Paracryphia Baker f.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 335-336 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 161 [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): 421 [secondary reference]

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 124 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Sphenostemonaceae P.Royen & Airy Shaw legitimate taxonomic synonym: Quintiniaceae Doweld legitimate

• APC Comment: Quintiniaceae is recognised as distinct in Qld, represented by Quintinia.
• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 630, 938 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sphenostemonaceae P.Royen & Airy Shaw legitimate taxonomic synonym: Quintiniaceae Doweld 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): 118 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sphenostemonaceae P.Royen & Airy Shaw legitimate taxonomic synonym: Quintiniaceae Doweld legitimate

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