Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 319 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 150 [secondary reference]

Trelease, W. (1902), The Yucceae. Thirteenth Annual Report Missouri Bot. Gard: 27-133 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Shafer, J.A. (1908), North American Trees: 151 [secondary reference]

• Type: Yucca aloifolia L.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1218, 1219, 1220, 1221 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 7 [secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Yucca. Flora of Australia 46: 72 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (doubtfully naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Agavaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 63 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Agavaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 69 [secondary reference]

Verhoek, S. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Agavaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 67 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 235 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 918-919 [secondary reference]

Chase, M.W., Reveal, J.L. & Fay, M.F. (2009), A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 135 [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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