Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 463 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(M. T.) v.v."

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 328 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 93 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1885), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 2: 4 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 217 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 326 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 463, Fig. 191 H [secondary reference]

common name: Tableland Caustic Bush [n/a] common name: Milk Bush [n/a]

Domin, K. (September 1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1085 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 697-698, Figs 987, H, 988 [secondary reference]

common name: Tableland Caustic Bush [n/a] common name: Milk Bush [n/a]

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: 282 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. & Murray, L.R. (1963), Poisonous Plants of the Northern Territory: 85-88, Pl.28 [secondary reference]

common name: Caustic Vine [n/a]

Chippendale, G.M. & Murray, L.R. (1963), Poisonous Plants of the Northern Territory: 71 [secondary reference]

common name: Caustic Vine [n/a]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 254 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 256 [secondary reference]

common name: Pencil Caustic [n/a] common name: Caustic Vine [n/a] common name: Caustic Bush [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 555 [secondary reference]

common name: Gaoloowurrah [n/a] common name: Pencil Caustic [n/a] common name: Milk Vine [n/a] common name: Snake Plant [n/a] common name: Lye Bush [n/a] common name: Caustic Plant [n/a] common name: Tableland Caustic Bush [n/a] common name: Milk Bush [n/a] common name: Caustic Bush [n/a] common name: Caustic Vine [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 70 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 277-278, Fig. 366 [secondary reference]

common name: milk bush [n/a] common name: Caustic vine [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 142 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 319, Fig. 45N [secondary reference]

common name: Pencil Caustic [n/a] common name: Caustic Bush [n/a] common name: Caustic Vine [n/a]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 9 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Williams, J.B. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 529, pl.26 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sarcostemma viminale subsp. australe (R.Br.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 715, Fig. 220D [secondary reference]

common name: Milkbush [n/a] common name: Caustic vine [n/a]

Forster, P.I. (14 February 1992), A taxonomic revision of Sarcostemma R.Br. subgenus Sarcostemma (Asclepiadaceae: Asclepiadeae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(1): 64, fig. 9 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: South Coast [South Australia: Bird Island, Petral Bay (Bay 4), Isle St Francis], 3.ii.1802, R.Brown [Iter Australiense 2872] (lecto: BM!, here designated, Fig. 9).

Forster, P.I. (14 February 1992), A taxonomic revision of Sarcostemma R.Br. subgenus Sarcostemma (Asclepiadaceae: Asclepiadeae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(1): 64 [basionym]

basionym of: Sarcostemma viminale subsp. australe (R.Br.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 221 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Sarcostemma viminale subsp. australe (R.Br.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 348 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Sarcostemma viminale subsp. australe (R.Br.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

Jessup, L.W. (22 April 2002), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 2 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Sarcostemma viminale subsp. brunonianum (Wight & Arn.) P.I.Forst. legitimate by Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 319, Fig. 45N

Meve, U. & Liede-Schumann, S. (2012), Taxonomic dissolution of Sarcostemma (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae). Kew Bulletin 67: 754 [basionym]

basionym of: Cynanchum viminale subsp. australe (R.Br.) Meve & Liede legitimate

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