Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 277 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 118 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 118 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Corynotheca F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 118 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Chamaescilla F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 557 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 109 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Federico Cesi, Italian naturalist, 1585-1630, who is said to have been the first to discover the spores of ferns, and whose name was Latinized as Caesius."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 192 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Federico Cesi, Italian naturalist, 1585-1630, who is said to have been the first to discover the spores of ferns, and whose name was Latinized as Caesius"

Phillips, E.P. (1951), The Genera of South African Flowering Plants Edn. 2: 184 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Caesia vittata R.Br.

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 436 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 102-104 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. (1979), Liliaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 9(1): 203-204 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 25 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Liliaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 422 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Corynotheca F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate

Henderson, R.J.F. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Appendix: Caesia. Flora of Australia 45: 281-288 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

Macfarlane, T.D. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Anthericaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 763 [secondary reference]

Henderson, R. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Liliaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 33 [secondary reference]

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McCune, S. & Hardin, D.W. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Anthericaceae - except Dichopogon & Arthropodium. Flora of New South Wales 4: 87 [secondary reference]

Conran, J.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Liliaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 654-655 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Liliaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 385 [secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T. & Conran, J.G. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Johnsoniaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 339 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 241 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 134 [secondary reference]

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