Jussieu, A.L. de (4 August 1789), Genera Plantarum: 143 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Apocynum L.

Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2, Appendix III: 563 [secondary reference]

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Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 695 [secondary reference]

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

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 470-471 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 876-879, Fig. 6-6 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 551-552 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Apocynaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 275-276 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Apocynaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 294 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Apocynaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 522-523 [secondary reference]

Floyd, A.G. (1989), Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia: 69 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Williams, J.B. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Apocynaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 512-513 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Apocynaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 698-699 [secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Apocynaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 104-105 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 434-435 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Apocynaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 321-322 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 491 [secondary reference]

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 420 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Asclepiadaceae Borkh. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Plumeriaceae Horan. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Periplocaceae Schltr. nom. cons.

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 31 [secondary reference]

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 135 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Asclepiadaceae Borkh. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Vincaceae Vest legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pacouriaceae Martinov legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cerberaceae Martinov legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stapeliaceae Horan. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Plumeriaceae Horan. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ophioxylaceae Mart. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cynanchaceae G.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Willughbeiaceae J.Agardh legitimate taxonomic synonym: Carissaceae Bertol. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Periplocaceae Schltr. nom. cons.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Apocineae Juss. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Asclepiadaceae Borkh. nom. cons.

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), CoI, ChI (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (native and naturalised), NI (native and naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised)

Floyd, A.G. (2008), Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia Edn. 2: 69-70 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 56-57, 937 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Asclepiadaceae Borkh. nom. cons.

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 117 [secondary reference]

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 21 (photo) [secondary reference]

common name: Oleander [n/a]

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