Dumortier, B.C.J. (1829), Analyse des familles de plantes: 57, 58 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Tacca J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 115 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 548 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1223-1224 [secondary reference]

Dahlgren, R.M.T., Clifford, H.T. & Yeo, P.F. (1985), The Families of the Monocotyledons: 118-121, Fig. 45-47 [secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T., Conran, J.G. & Thongpukdee, A. (1992), Australian Lilies: Native and Naturalised species. Australian Plants 16(132): 368 [secondary reference]

Koch, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Taccaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 986 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 252 [secondary reference]

Kubitzki, K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Taccaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 425-428, Fig. 121 [secondary reference]

Chase, M.W., Soltis, D.E., Soltis, P.S., Rudall, P.J., Fay, M.F., Hahn, W.H., Sullivan, S., Joseph, J., Molvray, M., Kores, P.J., Givnish, T.J., Sytsma, J.J. & Pires, J.C. in Wilson, K.L. & Morrison, D.A. (ed.) (2000), Higher-level systematics of the monocotyledons: An assessment of current knowledge and a new classification. Monocots: Systematics and Evolution: 16 [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): 435 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dioscoreaceae R.Br. nom. cons.

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 539 [secondary reference]

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 77 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dioscoreaceae R.Br. nom. cons.

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

orthographic variant: Tacceae Dumort. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 837, 931 [secondary reference]

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