Forster, P.I. (25 October 1995), Circumscription of Marsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae), with a revision of the genus in Australia and Papuasia. Australian Systematic Botany 8(5): 788, figs 58, 62, 99 (map) [tax. nov.]

• Type: Queensland, Cook District: Lakefield National Park: 33 km from Laura on road to New Laura Homestead (15 18'S, 144 25'E), P.I. Forster 12876 & A.R. Bean, 23 Jan. 1993 (holo: BRI (2 sheets + spirit); iso: DNA, MEL, QRS).

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 266, Map 316 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 63 [secondary reference]

common name: Bush Banana [n/a] common name: Mabagala [n/a]

• Vernacular: magabala (Yawuru)
• Vernacular: kooloonkoonarr (Bardi)
• Vernacular: makapala (Nyul Nuyl)

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 2606 [secondary reference]

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: 16 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Australia. Queensland. COOK DISTRICT: Lakefield National Park, 33 km from Laura on road to New Laura Homestead, 23 January 1993, P.I. Forster PIF12876 & A.R. Bean (holo: BRI [AQ58002: 2 sheets plus spirit]; iso: CNS [QRS 110291], DNA, MEL 0240082A)."

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: 16 [basionym]

basionym of: Leichhardtia viridiflora subsp. tropica (P.I.Forst.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

Brown, G.K. (December 2021), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2020 to 2021. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2021: 7 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Leichhardtia viridiflora subsp. tropica (P.I.Forst.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021. Nuytsia 33: 9 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Leichhardtia viridiflora subsp. tropica (P.I.Forst.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

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