Brown, R. (1820), Cryptostegia grandiflora. The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment 5: t. 435 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "native of the peninsula of India, ... The drawing was made from a specimen sent us by the kindness of Sir Abraham Hume, by whom it is cultivated in the hothouse at Wormleybury."

common name: Large-flowered Cryptostegia [n/a]

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

White, C.T. (1923), Queensland Agricultural Journal Series 2 19: 286, t. 57 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Nerium grandiflorum Roxb. nom. illeg. common name: Rubber Vine [n/a]

Marohasy, J. & Forster, P.I. (30 October 1991), A taxonomic revision of Cryptostegia R.Br. (Asclepiadaceae: Periplocoideae). Australian Systematic Botany 4(3): 574-575 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Edwards's Botanical Register 5 (1 Feb. 1820) t. 435 (1819)"

taxonomic synonym: Nerium grandiflorum Roxb. nom. illeg.

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. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 204, Fig. 65, Map 233 APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Nerium grandiflorum Roxb. nom. illeg. common name: Rubbervine [n/a]

• APC Comment: Authorship sometimes ascribed to "Roxb. ex R.Br.", but there is no indication in the protologue that Roxburgh is the author of this name.
• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised)

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: 57 [secondary reference]

Klackenberg, J. (2001), Revision of the genus Cryptostegia R.Br. (Apocynaceae, Periplocoideae). Adansonia 23(2): 212-215, Figs 2A (map), 3 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Nerium grandiflorum Roxb. nom. illeg.

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 3290 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 36-37 [secondary reference]

common name: Rubbervine [n/a]

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