Mueller, F.J.H. von (March 1892), Descriptions of new Australian Plants with occasional other annotations (continued). The Victorian Naturalist 8(11): 178-179 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "On Russell's River... Stephen Johnson."

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 325, Fig. 304 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (September 1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1074-1075 [basionym]

basionym of: Trichostomanthemum baccellianum (F.Muell.) Domin legitimate

Blake, S.T. (1948), Studies in Australian Apocynaceae and Asclepiadaceae, I. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 59(8): 161 [basionym]

basionym of: Melodinus baccellianus (F.Muell.) S.T.Blake legitimate

Pichon, M. (1951), Notulae Systematicae (Paris) 14: 87 [basionym]

basionym of: Melodinus baccellianus (F.Muell.) Pichon isonym

Ngan, Phung Trung (1965), A revision of the genus Wrightia (Apocynaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 52: 174 [secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. (21 August 1992), A taxonomic revision of Melodinus (Apocynaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(4): 396-399, Figs 1, 5B (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Queensland, Cook District: Russell's River, S. Johnson (holo: MEL! [MEL 1587277]; iso: BRI! [AQ332924], K [photo at BRI!])."

Forster, P.I. (21 August 1992), A taxonomic revision of Melodinus (Apocynaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(4): 396 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Melodinus baccellianus (F.Muell.) S.T.Blake legitimate

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Apocynaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 114 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Melodinus baccellianus (F.Muell.) S.T.Blake legitimate

Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. (2003), Series of revisions of Apocynaceae LIII. Melodinus. Systematics and Geography of Plants 73(1): 8 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melodinus acutiflorus F.Muell. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Melodinus baccellianus (F.Muell.) S.T.Blake legitimate

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