Forster, J.R. & Forster J.G.A. (29 November 1775), Characteres Generum Plantarum Edn. 1: 47, t. 24 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Phormium tenax Forster & G.Forster

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 117 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Chlamydia Gaertn. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Ewart, A.J. & Tovey, J.R. (1920), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 28. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 32: 202 [secondary reference]

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Henderson, R.J.F. & Clifford, H.T. (1984), A Recircumscription of the Phormiaceae Agardh. Taxon 33: 426 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 524-525 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Agavaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 418 [secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T., Henderson, R.J.F. & Conran, J.G. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Hemerocallidaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 249-250, Fig. 74 A-E [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (doubtfully naturalised), NSW (doubtfully naturalised), NI, Tas (naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 658 [secondary reference]

Chase, M.W., Reveal, J.L. & Fay, M.F. (2009), A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 135 [secondary reference]

Earp, C. (2013), The date of publication of the Forsters' Characteres Generum Plantarum revisited. New Zealand Journal of Botany 51(4): 252-263 [secondary reference]

• Comment: The author asserts that the 1775 editions of the Forsters' Characteres Generum Plantarum are not effectively published and that effective publication occurred only with the 1776 quarto edition. Proposals to conserve genera and to suppress other editions are also mooted. The 1775 publication date is maintained here until the outcome of these proposals is known.

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