Pierre, J.B.L. (1898), Observations sue quelques Landolphiées. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Paris n. ser., 1(12): 103 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Chilocarpus australis F.Muell. legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 349-350 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Chilocarpus australis F.Muell. legitimate

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 196 [secondary reference]

common name: Bellbird Vine [n/a]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Apocynaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 300, Fig. 43I [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Chilocarpus australis F.Muell. legitimate

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

common name: Southern Melodinus [n/a]

Forster, P.I. (21 August 1992), A taxonomic revision of Melodinus (Apocynaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(4): 389-393, Figs 1A, G-I, K, 2, 3, 5A (map) [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Chilocarpus australis F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Melodinus chilocarpoides F.Muell. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Rhytileucoma chilocarpoides F.Muell. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Clitandropsis papuana S.Moore legitimate taxonomic synonym: Clitandropsis novoguineensis (Wernham) S.Moore ex Markgr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Melodinus novoguineensis (Wernham) Pichon legitimate

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Fruits of the Rainforest: 188-189, Fig. 385 [secondary reference]

common name: Bellbird Vine [n/a]

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. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Apocynaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 111-112, Figs 23, 24, 49A-E, Map 145 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Chilocarpus australis F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Melodinus chilocarpoides F.Muell. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Rhytileucoma chilocarpoides F.Muell. nom. inval., pro syn.

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld, NSW

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 2005 [secondary reference]

Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. (2003), Series of revisions of Apocynaceae LIII. Melodinus. Systematics and Geography of Plants 73(1): 42 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melodinus orientalis Blume legitimate

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 47 [secondary reference]

common name: Harlequin Fruit [n/a] common name: Bellbird Vine [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Chilocarpus australis F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Melodinus chilocarpoides F.Muell. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Rhytileucoma chilocarpoides F.Muell. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Willughbeia novoguineensis Wernham legitimate taxonomic synonym: Clitandropsis papuana S.Moore legitimate taxonomic synonym: Clitandropsis novoguineensis (Wernham) S.Moore ex Markgr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Melodinus novoguineensis (Wernham) Pichon legitimate misapplication: Melodinus orientalis Blume legitimate by Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. (2003), Series of revisions of Apocynaceae LIII. Melodinus. Systematics and Geography of Plants 73(1): 42-48, Plate 6, Map 12

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

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