Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 342 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Queensland. Port Curtis, M'Gillivray; Burdekin river, F. Mueller; head of Boyd river, Leichhardt; Nerkool Creek, Bowman (all pubescent); Rockhampton, Dallachy (nearly glabrous)."

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: 316 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1987), Native Plants of Queensland 3: 198 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 301 [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): 785, figs 56, 95 (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Queensland, Port Curtis District: Rockhampton, Dallachy s.n., 9 June 1863 (lecto (here designated): K (photo at BRI); isolecto: MEL (113430)).

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 267, Map 318 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003), Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines: Code 2604 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 45 [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: 12 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Australia. PORT CURTIS DISTRICT: Rockhampton, 9 June 1863, [J.] Dallachy s.n. (lecto: K 000873032, left specimen on sheet, fide Forster 1995b: 785; isolecto: MEL 113430)."

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: 12 [basionym]

basionym of: Leichhardtia microlepis (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: 7 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

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