Linnaeus, C. [filius] (April 1782), Supplementum Plantarum: 168 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat intra spinetas ad littora fluminum Zeylonae & Malabariae. König."; Koenig, Linnean Herbarium 307/7 (holo: LINN(microfiche)) (ref. P.I.Forster, Austrobaileya 3(1) (1989) 114).

Brown, R. in Tuckey, J.H. (1818), Appendix No. V: Observations, systematical and geographical, on Professor Christian Smith's collection of plants from the vicinity of the River Congo. Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816: 450 [basionym]

basionym of: Oxystelma esculentum (L.f.) R.Br. legitimate

Holm, R.W. (1950), The American Species of Sarcistemma R.Br. (Asclepiadaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 37: 482 [basionym]

basionym of: Sarcostemma esculentum (L.f.) R.W.Holm legitimate

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 220 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Sarcostemma esculentum (L.f.) R.W.Holm legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Oxystelma esculentum (L.f.) R.Br. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (1 June 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Oxystelma esculentum (L.f.) R.Br. legitimate

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