Gray, A. (1861), Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 5: 335 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Feejee Islands, on the barren upland of Muthuata, 1840, U.S. Expl. Exped. (holo: US63573; iso: GH, NY.

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 344 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 94 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 254 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 141 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 9 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 713, Fig. 218H [secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 249 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Marsdenia angustata P.I.Forst. legitimate by Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 344

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 61 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Bidaria erecta F.Muell. legitimate by Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 713, Fig. 218H

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: 3 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Gymnema erectum (F.Muell.) P.I.Forst. legitimate by Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 344

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