Ker Gawler, J.B. (1802), Curtis's Botanical Magazine 16: 581 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Ewart, A.J., Rees, B. & Wood, B. (March 1912), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 17. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 24(1): 74 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 204 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "The author says he derived the name from Triton, "in the signification of a weather-cock," alluding to the stamens"

Phillips, E.P. (1951), The Genera of South African Flowering Plants Edn. 2: 218 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Tritonia squalida Ker Gawler nom. illeg.

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 446 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 21 [secondary reference]

Cooke, D.A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Iridaceae. Flora of Australia 46: 60 [secondary reference]

Perry, G. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Iridaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 803 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Iridaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 57 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 279 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Montbretia DC. legitimate

Clifford, H.T., Conran, J.G. & Thongpukdee, A. (1992), Australian Lilies: Native and Naturalised species. Australian Plants 16(132): 370 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Brown, E.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Iridaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 129 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Iridaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 712 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 520 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Iridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 416 [secondary reference]

Goldblatt, P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Iridaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 331-332 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 329 [secondary reference]

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

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 876 [secondary reference]

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