Sphaerophoraceae contains 6 genera and 39 species. Following the genus name is the taxonomic authority, year of publication, and the number of species:[5]
^Lücking, Robert; Hodkinson, Brendan P.; Leavitt, Steven D. (2017). "The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota – Approaching one thousand genera". The Bryologist. 119 (4): 361–416. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-119.4.361. S2CID90258634.
^Elenkin (1929). "O teoreticheskikh printsipakh detalizatsii osnovnykh ryadov kombinativnoi sistemy lishainikov" [On the theoretical grounds of detailed elaboration of basic series of the combinative system of lichens]. Izvestiya Glavnogo Botanicheskogo Sada SSSR ('Bulletin Jardin Botanique de l'URSS') (in Russian). 28: 265–305.
^Cannon PF, Kirk PM (2007). Fungal Families of the World. Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 334. ISBN978-0-85199-827-5.
^Fries, E.M. (1831). Lichenographia Europaea Reformata (in Latin). Lundin: typis Berlingianis, venditur apud E. Mauritium, Gryphiae. p. 7.
^Henssen, A.; Döring, H.; Kantvilas, G. (1992). "Austropeltum glareosum gen. et sp. nov., a new lichen from Mountain Plateaux in Tasmania and New Zealand". Botanica Acta. 105 (6): 457–467. doi:10.1111/j.1438-8677.1992.tb00328.x.
^Wedin, Mats (1993). "A phylogenetic analysis of the lichen family Sphaerophoraceae (Caliciales); a new generic classification and notes on character evolution". Plant Systematics and Evolution. 187 (1–4): 213–241. doi:10.1007/bf00994100.
^Wilson, F.R.M. (1891). "On lichens collected in the Colony of Victoria, Australia". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 28: 353–374 [372].