Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 265 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) B. v.s."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 115 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 519 [secondary reference]

Jonker, F.P. (5 December 1938), A monograph of the Burmanniaceae. Mededeelingen van het Botanisch Museum en Herbarium van de Rijks Universiteit te Utrecht 51(1): 135 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Banks and Solander s.n. from Northern Queensland, in herb. BM."

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: 215 [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 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 15 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 6 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Burmannia disticha L. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 54

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Burmanniaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 59, Fig. 8D [secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T., Conran, J.G. & Thongpukdee, A. (1992), Australian Lilies: Native and Naturalised species. Australian Plants 16(132): 341 [secondary reference]

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Burmanniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1004, Fig. 301B [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

misapplication: Burmannia disticha L. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 54

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

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