Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1028 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 455 [secondary reference]

White, J. (1790), Appendix: Natural History. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales: 230 [secondary reference]

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

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 268 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 553 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 192 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1: 527 [secondary reference]

• Type: Smilax aspera L.

Koyama, T. (1960), Materials towards a monograph of the Genus Smilax. Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum 13: 1-63 [secondary reference]

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Conran, J.G. & Clifford, H.T. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Smilacaceae. Flora of Australia 46: 182, 184 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW, LHI, Vic

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