Decaisne, J. (1834), Description d'un herbier de l'ile de Timor: faisant partie des collections botaniques du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Nouvelles Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 3: 365 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited.)

Steudel, E.G. von (1840), Nomenclator Botanicus Edn. 2, 1(4): 489 [basionym]

basionym of: Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. legitimate

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 654 [basionym]

basionym of: Callista affinis (Decne.) Kuntze legitimate

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 46 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. legitimate

Dockrill, A.W. (1994), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 2: 596 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. legitimate

Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (April 2002), Nomenclatural changes in the Dendrobieae (Orchidaceae) 1: The Australasian Region. The Orchadian 13(11): 492 [basionym]

basionym of: Vappodes affinis (Decne.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Callista affinis (Decne.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Vappodes affinis (Decne.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

• APC Comment: Onychium affine is listed in synonymy of Dendrobium affine R.Br. by M.A.Clements, Austral. Orchid Res. 1: 46 (1989) and by A.W.Dockrill, Austral. Indig. Orchids 2nd edn, 2: 596 (1993). Callista affinis is listed in synonymy of Dendrobium affine R.Br. by A.W.Dockrill, Austral. Indig. Orchids 2nd edn, 2: 596 (1993). Dendrobium affine is now considered to have been misapplied to Dendrobium dicuphum F.Muell. in Australia.

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