Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1900), Notes from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. No. 5. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 24(4): 647 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Between Unkya Creek and Allgomera, Yarrahappini Mountain, Kempsey District (G.R. Brown, January, 1897, and November, 1899)."

• Comment: nom. illeg., non (F.Muell.) Pierre (1898).

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

taxonomic synonym of: Melodinus guilfoylei F.Muell. legitimate

Forster, P.I. (21 August 1992), A taxonomic revision of Melodinus (Apocynaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(4): 393 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: New South Wales: Kempsey District, x.1899, G.R. Brown (lecto (here designated): MEL! [MEL1587325]).

Forster, P.I. (21 August 1992), A taxonomic revision of Melodinus (Apocynaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(4): 393 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melodinus acutiflorus F.Muell. legitimate

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Apocynaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 112 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melodinus acutiflorus F.Muell. 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

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