Brown, R. in Sims, J. (1 August 1807), Botanical Magazine 26: t. 1041 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Patersonia sericea R.Br.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 114 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Genosiris Labill. nom. rej.

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 265 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 543 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Genosiris Labill. nom. rej.

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 216 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 113 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Wm. Paterson, died 1810, an early botanical collector in Australia, and Lieut. Governor of New South Wales, 1800-1810."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 208 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 444 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 88 [secondary reference]

Geerinck, D.J.L. (1974), Revision of Australian Iridaceae. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 44: 41 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Genosiris Labill. nom. rej.

Stafleu, F.A. (1978), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Leningrad, 1975. Regnum Vegetabile 97: 315 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Genosiris Labill. nom. rej.

Goldblatt, P. (1979), Preliminary cytology of Australian Iridaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 66: 851-855 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 21 [secondary reference]

Cooke, D.A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Iridaceae. Flora of Australia 46: 13 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Genosiris Labill. nom. rej.

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 41 [secondary reference]

Macfarlane, T.D. & Cooke, D.A. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Patersonia. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 798-799 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Iridaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 55 [secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T., Conran, J.G. & Thongpukdee, A. (1992), Australian Lilies: Native and Naturalised species. Australian Plants 16(132): 370 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Brown, E.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Iridaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 117 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Iridaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 693 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Iridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 403 [secondary reference]

Goldblatt, P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Iridaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 319 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 325 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Genosiris Labill. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Genorisis Geerinck orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 637 [secondary reference]

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