Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 341 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 94 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 332 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 314, Fig. 45H [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 17 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 19 [secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. (25 October 1995), Circumscription of Marsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae), with a revision of the genus in Australia and Papuasia. Australian Systematic Botany 8(5): 784, figs 55, 98 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: "Queensland, Moreton District: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller s.n., 1855 (holo: MEL (113390))."

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 267, Fig. 82, Map 317 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld

Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3: 23 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 266 [secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. (24 March 2021), Gymnema R.Br. and Leichhardtia R.Br. (Apocynaceae), reinstated genera for taxa previously included in Marsdenia R.Br.: a conspectus for Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Austrobaileya 11: 8 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Australia. Queensland. MORETON DISTRICT: Brisbane River, in 1855, F. Mueller s.n. (holo: K 000873037 i.d.v.; iso: MEL 113390)."

• Text: "In the 1995 revision it was incorrectly stated that the holotype for this name was the MEL specimen. The specimen at K is annotated by Bentham so should be regarded as the holotype."

Forster, P.I. (24 March 2021), Gymnema R.Br. and Leichhardtia R.Br. (Apocynaceae), reinstated genera for taxa previously included in Marsdenia R.Br.: a conspectus for Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Austrobaileya 11: 8 [basionym]

basionym of: Leichhardtia coronata (Benth.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

Brown, G.K. (December 2021), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2020 to 2021. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2021: 6 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Leichhardtia coronata (Benth.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

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