Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 214 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 102 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (3 April 1810), On the Asclepiadeae: 25-26 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 326 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 325 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 464 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin name of a Mediterranean plant, now Cynanchum Vincetoxicum (L.) Pers., or Swallow-wort, a supplement antidote for poison, so called after Asklepios, in Latin Aesculapius, the god of medicine."

Hitchcock, A.S. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 136 [secondary reference]

• Type: Asclepias syriaca L.

Woodson, R.E. (1954), The North American Species of Asclepias L. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 41(1): 1-211 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 699 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin name of a Mediterranean plant, now Cynanchum Vincetoxicum (L.) Pers., or Swallow-wort, a supplement antidote for poison, so-called after Asklepios, in Latin Aesculapius, the god of medicine."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 352 [secondary reference]

Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 1: 201 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Bidaria (Endl.) Decne. legitimate

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 880, 882 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 69 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 308 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 525 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Williams, J.B. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 528 [secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 215 APC [secondary reference]

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

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 326 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 34 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 72 [secondary reference]

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