Link, J.H.F. (1829), Handbuch zur Erkennung der nutzbarsten und am häufigsten vorkommenden Gewachse 1: 207 [tax. nov.]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1161-1164 [secondary reference]

Dahlgren, R.M.T., Clifford, H.T. & Yeo, P.F. (1985), The Families of the Monocotyledons: 329-330 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 526-528 [secondary reference]

Kubitzki, K., Rudall, P.J. & Chase, M.C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Systematics and Evolution. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 31 [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): 422 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Poales Small legitimate

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 85 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Rapateales Colella ex Reveal & Doweld legitimate

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 932 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Poales Small legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Bromeliaceae Link orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Poales Small legitimate

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