Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 464 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 326 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 93, 143 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 217 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 325, Fig. 305 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (September 1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1084 [secondary reference]

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]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 320, Fig. 44E [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 9 [secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. (30 October 1991), A taxonomic revision of Gymnanthera R.Br. (Asclepiadaceae: Periplocoideae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 4(3): 565, figs 1, 2 (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Australia. Queensland. Sweer's Island (island a,) Gulf of Carpentaria, 17. xi. 1802, R.Brown [lecto (here designated); BM, 2 sheets (photo at BRI!)]; isolecto: [CANB 278899] (CANB!).

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 712, Fig. 220A [secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 202 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Gymnanthera oblonga (Burm.f.) P.S.Green legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 62 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Gymnanthera oblonga (Burm.f.) P.S.Green legitimate

Jessup, L.W. (22 April 2002), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 2 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Gymnanthera oblonga (Burm.f.) P.S.Green legitimate

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 40 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Gymnanthera oblonga (Burm.f.) P.S.Green legitimate

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