Brown, N.E. (1929), The Iridaceae of Burmann's Florae Capensis Prodromus. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1929(4): 133 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Gladiolus villosus Burm.f. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 528 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Synnotia bicolor (Thunb.) Sweet legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 86 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Synnotia bicolor (Thunb.) Sweet legitimate

Cooke, D.A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Iridaceae. Flora of Australia 46: 57-58, Map 76 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Gladiolus villosus Burm.f. legitimate misapplication: Synnotia bicolor (Thunb.) Sweet legitimate by Black, J.M. (1913), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 7. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 37: 123

Goldblatt, P. (1992), Phylogenetic analysis of the South African genus Sparaxis (including Synnotia) (Iridaceae-Ixiodeae), with two new species and a review of the genus. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 79(1): 156, fig. 2A [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Sparaxis villosa (Burm.f.) Goldblatt legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Sparaxis villosa (Burm.f.) Goldblatt legitimate

Goldblatt, P. & Manning, J.C. (2013), Systematics and biology of the Cape genus Sparaxis (Iridaceae). Strelitzia 32: 55 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Sparaxis villosa (Burm.f.) Goldblatt legitimate

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