Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 462 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v"

Moore, S. le M. (1923), Gamopetalae. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 61, supplement: 34 [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]

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. (12 October 1989), Notes on Asclepiadaceae, 1. Austrobaileya 3(1): 128, fig. 9B [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, December 1802, R.Brown (lecto (here designated): BM; isolecto: MEL (MEL 113347, BRI(AQ333083))"

misapplication: Gymnema sylvestre (Retz.) R.Br. ex Schult. legitimate by Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 342

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 713, Fig. 218G [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 301 [secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. (25 October 1995), Circumscription of Marsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae), with a revision of the genus in Australia and Papuasia. Australian Systematic Botany 8(5): 805 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Australia, Cook District: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown s.n., Dec. 1802 (lecto: BM; isolecto: BRI (AQ333083), MEL (113347), fide Forster (1989b: 128))."

Forster, P.I. (25 October 1995), Circumscription of Marsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae), with a revision of the genus in Australia and Papuasia. Australian Systematic Botany 8(5): 805 [basionym]

basionym of: Marsdenia geminata (R.Br.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 253 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Marsdenia geminata (R.Br.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

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

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 44 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Marsdenia geminata (R.Br.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

Forster, P.I. (24 March 2021), Gymnema R.Br. and Leichhardtia R.Br. (Apocynaceae), reinstated genera for taxa previously included in Marsdenia R.Br.: a conspectus for Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Austrobaileya 11: 3 APC [secondary reference]

• Type: "Australia. COOK DISTRICT: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, December 1802, R. Brown s.n. (lecto: BM 001040551, fide Forster 1989: 128; isolecto: BRI [AQ333083], MEL 113347)."

nomenclatural synonym: Marsdenia geminata (R.Br.) P.I.Forst. legitimate misapplication: Gymnema sylvestre (Retz.) R.Br. ex Schult. legitimate by Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 342 misapplication: Gymnema sylvestre (Retz.) R.Br. ex Schult. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1900), The Queensland Flora 3: 103-104

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Forster, P.I. (24 March 2021), Gymnema R.Br. and Leichhardtia R.Br. (Apocynaceae), reinstated genera for taxa previously included in Marsdenia R.Br.: a conspectus for Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Austrobaileya 11: 5 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Gymnema tricholepis Schltr. legitimate by Moore, S. le M. (1923), Gamopetalae. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 61, supplement: 34

Brown, G.K. (December 2021), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2020 to 2021. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2021: 7 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Marsdenia geminata (R.Br.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021. Nuytsia 33: 8 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Marsdenia geminata (R.Br.) P.I.Forst. legitimate

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