Meyer, G.F.W. (1818), Primitiae Florae Essequeboensis: 6-7 [tax. nov.]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1188 [secondary reference]

Morley, B. in Morley, B. & Toelken, H.R. (1983), Flowering Plants in Australia: 354 [secondary reference]

Andersson, L. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Marantaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 288 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: Qld (doubtfully naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 136 [secondary reference]

Borschenius, F., Suarez, L.S.S. & Prince, L.M. (2012), Molecular phylogeny and redefined generic limits of Calathea (Marantaceae). Systematic Botany 37(3): 626 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: An American genus previously recognised for Australia due to the inclusion of Calathea lancifolia, which is now treated as Goeppertia lancifolia.

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