Jones, D.L. (1972), A new Sarcochilus species from northern Queensland. The Victorian Naturalist 89: 344, Fig. 1 [primary reference]

• Type: "HOLOTYPE: East Evelyn Tablelands, North Queensland, at 980 metres – D.L. Jones, B. Gray & R. Collins, 31 July 1972 (MEL). ISOTYPES at MEL, BRIS."

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 40 [secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 573 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 43 [secondary reference]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 133 [secondary reference]

Dockrill, A.W. (1994), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 2: 978-979 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Sarcochilus olivaceus var. borealis Nicholls legitimate by Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 730

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: 309 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 346 [secondary reference]

Backhouse, G.N., Bates, R.J., Brown, A.P. & Copeland, L.M. (1 March 2016), Checklist of the orchids of Australia including its island territories: 47, 90 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Sarcochilus serrulatis Dockrill orth. var. misapplication: Sarcochilus olivaceus var. borealis Nicholls legitimate by Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 730

• APC Dist.: Qld

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 726 [secondary reference]

common name: Banded Butterfly Orchid [n/a]

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