Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 263 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Calectasia cyanea R.Br.

Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2, Appendix III: 609 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 119 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 111 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek kalos, beautiful; ektasis, development: alluding to the blue spreading perianth-lobes."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 196 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek kalos, beautiful; ektasis, development; alluding to the blue spreading perianth-lobes"

Anway, J.C. (1969), The evolution and taxonomy of Calectasia cyanea R. Br. (Xanthorrhoeaceae) in terms of its present-day variation and cytogenetics. Australian Journal of Botany 17(1): 147-159 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1222 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Calectasia (Xanthorrhoeaceae). Flora of Australia 46: 170-171 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Vic

Macfarlane, T.D. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Dasypogonaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 739 [secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T., Conran, J.G. & Thongpukdee, A. (1992), Australian Lilies: Native and Naturalised species. Australian Plants 16(132): 350-351 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Xanthorrhoeaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 734 [secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T., Keighery, G.J. & Conran, J.G. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Dasypogonaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 193, Fig. 46F-K [secondary reference]

Barrett, R.L. & Dixon, K.W. (8 January 2001), A revision of the genus Calectasia (Calectasiaceae) with eight new species described from south-west Western Australia. Nuytsia 13(3): 411-448 [secondary reference]

common name: Tinsel Lillies [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 299 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 137 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Scaryomyrtus F.Muell. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Vic

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