Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 291 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 141 [secondary reference]

Sims, J. (1807), Botanical Magazine 27: 1753 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 116 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 267 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 543 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 112 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek krinon, a lily."

Britton, N.L. & Wilson, Percy (10 January 1924), Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 5(2): 160 [secondary reference]

• Type: Crinum americanum L.

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 199-200 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek krinon, a lily"

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 441 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. & Murray, L.R. (1963), Poisonous Plants of the Northern Territory: 32 [secondary reference]

Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 2: 992 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1208 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 7 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Amaryllidaceae, Hypoxidaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 425 [secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Crinum. Flora of Australia 45: 369-375 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Liriamus Raf. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI, CoI, NT, SA, Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), LHI, NI, Vic

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Amaryllidaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 49 [secondary reference]

Koch, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Amaryllidaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1000 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Liliaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 512-513 [secondary reference]

Geerinck, D.J.L. (1993), Amaryllidaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 11(2): 359-361 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Frischknecht, N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Amaryllidaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 104 [secondary reference]

Conran, J.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Liliaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 677 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 509-510 [secondary reference]

Meerow, A.W. & Snijman, D.A. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Amaryllidaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 97 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Liliaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 334 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 15 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 228 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Liriamus Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Crinum sect. Eucrinum M.Roem. nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), CoI, ChI, NT, SA, Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), LHI, NI, Vic

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