Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 305 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Gloriosa superba L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 144 [secondary reference]

• Type: Gloriosa superba L.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1211 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 25 [secondary reference]

Conran, J.G. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Gloriosa. Flora of Australia 45: 412 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: NT (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised)

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Liliaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 37 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Colchicaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 109 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 512-513 [secondary reference]

Nordenstam, R.B. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Colchicaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 183, Fig. 14 E,G [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 362-363 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised)

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