Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 314 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Cliffs of Brunswick Bay and Regent's River, N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 93 [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: 167 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "A. Cunningham s.n., Western Australia, north coast, cliffs of Brunswick Bay; fruiting, 1820. (Kew.)"

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 141 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Apocynaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 700, Fig. 216B [secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. (18 December 1992), A taxonomic revision of Alstonia (Apocynaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(6): 748-750, figs 1, 5A (map) [secondary reference]

Christophel, D.C. & Hyland, B.P.M. in Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Leaf Atlas of Australian Tropical Rain Forest Trees. Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system: 1, 24, 68, pl. 6(e), Code 912 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 1: 109, 114, 140, Code 912 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 2: 20, Code 912 [secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Apocynaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 119, Fig. 51D, Map 153 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Sidiyasa, K. (1998), Taxonomy, phylogeny, and wood anatomy of Alstonia (Apocynaceae). Blumea Supplementary Series 11: 184 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Alstonia spectabilis R.Br. legitimate

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs. Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs: 55 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003), Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines: Code 912 [secondary reference]

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