Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1033 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Indiis."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1870), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 7(53): 81 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 460 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 115 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 548 [secondary reference]

• Vernacular: Tarm
• Vernacular: Wi-ka
• Vernacular: Kun-janga
• Vernacular: Karro

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 534 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Dioscorea bulbifera L. legitimate by Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 294

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: 215 [secondary reference]

Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Dioscoreaceae. Flora of Australia 46: 198 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Dioscorea bulbifera L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 460

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Dioscoreaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 986 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dioscorea bulbifera L. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Dioscorea bulbifera L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 460

---