Smith, J.E. (1798), The Characters of Twenty New Genera of Plants. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 4: 218 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Andrews, H.C. (1800), The Botanist's Repository for New, and Rare Plants 2: t. 81 [secondary reference]

Smith, J.E. (1800), Description of Sowerbaea juncea, a Plant of New South Wales. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 5: 1634 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Sowerbaea juncea Smith

Dumont de Courset, G.L.M. (1814), Le Botaniste Cultivateur Edn. 2, 7: 67 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 118 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 559 [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: 438 [secondary reference]

Stewart, D.A. & Barlow, B.A. (1976), Genomic differentiation and polypoloidy in Sowerbaea (Liliaceae). Australian Journal of Botany 24(3): 349-367 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 26 [secondary reference]

Henderson, R.J.F. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Sowerbaea. Flora of Australia 45: 264-268 [secondary reference]

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

Macfarlane, T.D. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Anthericaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 769 [secondary reference]

Henderson, R. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Liliaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 36 [secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T., Conran, J.G. & Thongpukdee, A. (1992), Australian Lilies: Native and Naturalised species. Australian Plants 16(132): 264 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Anthericaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 998 [secondary reference]

McCune, S. & Hardin, D.W. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Anthericaceae - except Dichopogon & Arthropodium. Flora of New South Wales 4: 92 [secondary reference]

Conran, J.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Liliaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 665 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Liliaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 389 [secondary reference]

Conran, J.G. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Lomandraceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 636, Fig. 101K-N [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 246 [secondary reference]

CHAH (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Sowerbia Andrews orth. var. orthographic variant: Sowerbea Dum.Cours. orth. var.

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 809 [secondary reference]

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