Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 149 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Cyanella hyacinthoides L.

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

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 22 [secondary reference]

Dahlgren, R.M.T., Clifford, H.T. & Yeo, P.F. (1985), The Families of the Monocotyledons: 164 [secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Cyanella. Flora of Australia 45: 193 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised)

Simpson, M.G. & Rudall, P.J. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Tecophilaeaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 434, Fig. 123 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 241 [secondary reference]

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