Asparagaceae Juss.
Sowerbaea alliacea F.Muell. , legitimate, scientific
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(46): 180 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Ad flumen Liverpool's River terrae Arnhemicae ; B. Gulliver."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 118 [secondary reference]
Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 321 [secondary reference]
Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 214 [secondary reference]
Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 228 BHL [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 43 [secondary reference]
Henderson, R.J.F. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Sowerbaea. Flora of Australia 45: 265-266, Fig. 83, Map 290 APC [secondary reference]
  • Type: "T: near Liverpool R., Arnhem Land, N.T., May 1867, B. Gulliver; holo: MEL; iso: AD."
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT
Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Anthericaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 998, Fig. 299G [secondary reference]
Dowe, J.L. & Short, P.S. (2 February 2024), The Gullivers’ travels: Thomas Allen Gulliver (1848–1931), Benjamin John Gulliver (1851–1938) and Susannah Gulliver (1857–1938): their contribution to Australian natural history and horticulture. Swainsona 38: 61 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "(second-step, here designated): Liverpool River, Gulliver s.n. (MEL51922). Isolectotypes: AD97234307, K000794812, MEL51920, MEL51921 (fide AVH & JSTOR-GP, Mar. 2023)."
  • Text: "The statement by Henderson (1987) that MEL holds the holotype was premature as there were three syntypes at that herbarium: MEL51920, MEL51921 and MEL51922. [...] Henderson’s publication is here seen as a first-step lectotypification, restricting the lectotype to MEL (and not AD or K)."