Bentham, G. & Hooker, J.D. (May 1876), Genera Plantarum 2(2): 705 [comb. nov.]

• Type: Alstonia scholaris (L.) R.Br. [See J.Monachino, Pacific Sci. 3 (1949) 139.]

• Comment: nom. illeg. as this is the type section.

Pichon, M. (1947), Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 19: 294-301 (296) [secondary reference]

Monachino, J.V. (1949), A revision of the genus Alstonia (Apocynaceae). Pacific Science; a quarterly devoted to the biological and physical sciences of the pacific region 3: 139 [secondary reference]

Sidiyasa, K. (1998), Taxonomy, phylogeny, and wood anatomy of Alstonia (Apocynaceae). Blumea Supplementary Series 11: 79 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Alstonia R.Br. sect. Alstonia legitimate

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