Wight, R. & Arnott, G.A.W. in Wight, R. (1834), Contributions to the Botany of India: 49 [comb. nov.]

• Type: Coloured drawing no. 1383 by Roxburgh.

basionym: Asclepias tenuissima Roxb. ex Schult. legitimate

Nicolson, D.H., Suresh, C.R. & Manilal, K.S. (1988), An interpretation of Van Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus. Regnum Vegetabile 119: 64 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Coloured drawing no. 1383 by Roxburgh (lecto: K, n.v., fide Suresh loc. cit.).

Forster, P.I. (26 October 1994), A taxonomic revision of Tylophora (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae) in Papuasia. Australian Systematic Botany 7(5): 491 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Tylophora flexuosa R.Br. legitimate

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