Willdenow, C.L. (1808), Der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin Magazin fur die Neuesten Entdeckungen in der Gesammten Naturkunde 2: 25 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Pfeiffer in Pfeiffer, L.K.G. (1874), Nomenclator Botanicus: 398 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Myrsiphyllum asparagoides (L.) Willd.

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 434 [secondary reference]

Obermeyer, A.A. (1984), Revision of the genus Myrsiphyllum Willd. Bothalia 15(1&2): 77-88 [secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T. & Conran, J.G. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Myrsiphyllum. Flora of Australia 45: 163 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Elachanthera F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Luzuriaga sect. Elachanthera (F.Muell.) K.Krause legitimate

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 155 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Elachanthera F.Muell. legitimate

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Asparagaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 47 [secondary reference]

Malcomber, S.T. & Demissew, S. (1993), The status of Protasparagus and Myrsiphyllum in the Asparagaceae. Kew Bulletin 48(1): 63 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Asparagus L. legitimate

Conran, J.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Liliaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 641 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Asparagus L. legitimate

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