Mueller, F.J.H. von (1860), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(13): 90 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ad ripas silvaticas fluvii Clarence River prope oppidum Grafton. H. Beckler."

taxonomic synonym: Rhytileucoma chilocarpoides F.Muell. nom. inval., pro syn.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(44): 118 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Melodinus chilocarpoides F.Muell. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 303 [secondary reference]

replaced synonym: Melodinus chilocarpoides F.Muell. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 92 [secondary reference]

Pierre, J.B.L. (1898), Observations sue quelques Landolphiées. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Paris n. ser., 1(12): 103 [basionym]

basionym of: Melodinus australis (F.Muell.) Pierre legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 216 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 317 [secondary reference]

• Vernacular: Paiamara
• Vernacular: Won-gali

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 68 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Melodinus australis (F.Muell.) Pierre legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Apocynaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 300 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Melodinus australis (F.Muell.) Pierre legitimate

Forster, P.I. (21 August 1992), A taxonomic revision of Melodinus (Apocynaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(4): 389 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "New South Wales: Clarence River, H. Beckler (holo: MEL! [MEL1587312]; iso: BRI! [AQ332841] [photo at BRI!])."

Forster, P.I. (21 August 1992), A taxonomic revision of Melodinus (Apocynaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(4): 389 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Melodinus australis (F.Muell.) Pierre legitimate

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Apocynaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 111 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Melodinus australis (F.Muell.) Pierre legitimate

Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. (2003), Series of revisions of Apocynaceae LIII. Melodinus. Systematics and Geography of Plants 73(1): 42 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Australia, Clarence R., near Grafton, Beckler anno 1884 (holo- MEL; iso- K, M)."

Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. (2003), Series of revisions of Apocynaceae LIII. Melodinus. Systematics and Geography of Plants 73(1): 42 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melodinus orientalis Blume legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Melodinus australis (F.Muell.) Pierre legitimate

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