Smith, J.E. (1804), Exotic Botany 1: 5, t. 4 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Blandfordia nobilis Smith

• Comment: See comments re conservation by Rehder et al., Kew Bull. (1935) 379. Nom. cons. vs. BLANDFORDIA Andrews (Feb. 1804) (nom. rej.) (ref. I.C.B.N. (1988) No. 1021).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 117 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 269 [secondary reference]

common name: Christmas Bells [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 553 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 176-177, 199, 201 [secondary reference]

common name: Christmas Bells [n/a]

• Etymology: Named in honour of George, Marquis of Blandford, a plant lover, who lived early in the 19th century.

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 434 [secondary reference]

common name: Christmas Bell [n/a]

Ingram, J.W. (1965), Baileya; a Quarterly Journal of Horticultural Taxonomy 13: 45-52 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 25 [secondary reference]

Henderson, R.J.F. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Blandfordia. Flora of Australia 45: 175-178 [secondary reference]

Henderson, R. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Liliaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 38 [secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T., Conran, J.G. & Thongpukdee, A. (1992), Australian Lilies: Native and Naturalised species. Australian Plants 16(132): 350 [secondary reference]

common name: Christmas Bells [n/a]

Quirico, A.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Blandfordiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 67 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Liliaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 374 [secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T. & Conran, J.G. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Blandfordiaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 150, Fig. 46 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Blandfortia Poir. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, Tas

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 108 [secondary reference]

Soltis, D.E., Smith, S.A., Cellinese, N., Wurdack, K.J., Tank, D.C., Brockington, S.F., Refulio-Rodriguez, N.F., Walker, J.B., Moore, M.J., Carlswars, B.S., Bell, C.D., Latvis, M., Crawley, S., Black, C., Diouf, D., Xi, Z., Rushworth, C.A., Gitzendanner, M.A., Sytsma, K.J., Qui, Y., Hilu, K.W., Davis, C.C., Sanderson, M.J., Beaman, R.S., Olmstead, R.G., Judd, W.S., Donoghue, M.J. & Soltis, P.S. (1 April 2011), Angiosperm Phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa. American Journal of Botany 98(4): Fig. 2B [secondary reference]

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