Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 35 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in India."

Meisner, C.D.F. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1864), Lauraceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 15(1): 255 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cassytha cuscutiformis Meisn. nom. inval., pro syn.

Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 311 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 4 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 7 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 439, Fig. 424 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 679-680 [secondary reference]

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 322 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 229 [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): 235 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 138 [secondary reference]

Weber, J.Z. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Lauraceae. Flora of Central Australia: 86, Fig. 105D-F [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cassytha archboldiana C.K.Allen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cassytha novo-guineensis Kaneh. & Hatus. legitimate

Weber, J.Z. (30 June 1981), A taxonomic revision of Cassytha (Lauraceae) in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 3(3): 228-232 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Rheede, Hortus Ind. Malab. 7: t. 44 (1688)"

taxonomic synonym: Cassytha filiformis var. pseudopubescens Domin legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Lauraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 155, 163, Fig. 21A [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 78 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 42 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Lauraceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 146 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Lauraceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 62, Fig. 10C [secondary reference]

common name: Dodder Laurel [n/a]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Lauraceae. Flora of Australia 50: 69 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 305 [secondary reference]

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 23 [secondary reference]

common name: Devil's Twine [n/a]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 113 [secondary reference]

common name: Yugulu [n/a]

• Vernacular: jirrwany (Bardi)
• Vernacular: goody goody (Nyul Nyul)
• Vernacular: yugulu (Yawuru)

Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997), Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands: 72-73 [secondary reference]

common name: Dodder laurel [n/a]

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 102 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Lauraceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 146 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 245 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cassytha americana Nees legitimate common name: Coastal Dodder [n/a] common name: Dodder Laurel [n/a] common name: Devil's Twine [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cassytha cuscutiformis Meisn. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Cassytha filiformis f. pycnantha Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cassytha filiformis var. pseudopubescens Domin legitimate misapplication: Cassytha melantha R.Br. legitimate by Ewart, A.J. & Davies, O.B. (1917), The Flora of the Northern Territory: 113

• APC Dist.: WA, CoI, AR, NT, Qld, NSW

Weber, J.Z. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Cassytha. Flora of Australia 2: 127, Plate 24, Fig. 29, Map 136 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cassytha cuscutiformis Meisn. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Cassytha filiformis f. pycnantha Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cassytha filiformis var. pseudopubescens Domin legitimate common name: False Dodder [n/a] common name: Love Vine [n/a]

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