Mueller, F.J.H. von (1858), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1(3): 57 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ad ripas fluviorum et clivos rupestres terrae Arnhemicae."

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: 163 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "F.Mueller s.n., Fitzmaurice Rv. (Gray Herbarium)."

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]

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

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 7 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (20 June 1988), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 6: 21 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Alstonia spectabilis R.Br. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Apocynaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 700 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Alstonia spectabilis R.Br. legitimate

Forster, P.I. (18 December 1992), A taxonomic revision of Alstonia (Apocynaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(6): 758 [basionym]

basionym of: Alstonia spectabilis subsp. ophioxyloides (F.Muell.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Apocynaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 122 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Alstonia spectabilis subsp. ophioxyloides (F.Muell.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Alstonia spectabilis subsp. ophioxyloides (F.Muell.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

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