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

• Type: "Habitat in Jamaica, Vera Cruce."

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, Fig. 14A-C, Map 89 [secondary reference]

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]

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

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

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

Forster, P.I. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (8 December 2010), Agavaceae. Census of the Queensland Flora 2010: 6 [secondary reference]

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 356-357, photos 11-14 [secondary reference]

common name: Spanish Bayonet [n/a] common name: Yucca [n/a]

Gardner, R.O. (June 2016), Norfolk Island noodlings. Auckland Botanical Society Journal 71(1): 61 [secondary reference]

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