Forster, J.R. & Forster J.G.A. (29 November 1775), Characteres Generum Plantarum Edn. 1: 37, t. 19 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Melodinus scandens J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (30 September 1857), Account of some new Australian plants. Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria 2: 71 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 304 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 92 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 317 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 349 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 68 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Apocynaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 300 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 436 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Trichostomanthemum Domin legitimate

Harden, G.J. & Williams, J.B. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Apocynaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 514 [secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. (21 August 1992), A taxonomic revision of Melodinus (Apocynaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(4): 387-400 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Clitandropsis S.Moore legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pseudowilloughbeia Markgr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trichostomanthemum Domin legitimate

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Apocynaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 111-114 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Clitandropsis S.Moore legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pseudowilloughbeia Markgr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trichostomanthemum Domin legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld, NSW, NI

Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. (2003), Series of revisions of Apocynaceae LIII. Melodinus. Systematics and Geography of Plants 73(1): 4, 7-8 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Melodinus sect. Dichostemma F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Clitandropsis S.Moore legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pseudowilloughbeia Markgr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trichostomanthemum Domin legitimate

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 46 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 536 [secondary reference]

Earp, C. (2013), The date of publication of the Forsters' Characteres Generum Plantarum revisited. New Zealand Journal of Botany 51(4): 252-263 [secondary reference]

• Comment: The author asserts that the 1775 editions of the Forsters' Characteres Generum Plantarum are not effectively published and that effective publication occurred only with the 1776 quarto edition. Proposals to conserve genera and to suppress other editions are also mooted. The 1775 publication date is maintained here until the outcome of these proposals is known.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Melodinus sect. Dichostemma F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Clitandropsis S.Moore legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pseudowilloughbeia Markgr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trichostomanthemum Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trichostemanthemum Leeuwenb. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld, NSW, NI

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