Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1783), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 1(1): 122 [tax. nov.]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 703 [basionym]

basionym of: Hippeastrum puniceum (Lam.) Kuntze legitimate

Voss, A. (1895), Vilmorin's Blumengartnerei Edn. 3, 1(2): 1033 [basionym]

basionym of: Hippeastrum puniceum (Lam.) Voss isonym

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 511 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Surinam; lecto: M.S.Merian, Metamorph. Insect. Surinam t. 22 (1705), fide R.A.Howard, Fl. Lesser Antilles 3: 476 (1979)."

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 511 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Hippeastrum puniceum (Lam.) Kuntze legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Hippeastrum puniceum (Lam.) Kuntze legitimate

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