Hunt, T.E. (1949), A review of the genus Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae) in Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 60: 60-61, t. V. [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Chilverton, Atherton Tableland, N. Queensland, July, 1947, Mrs. Kirkwood. Flowered in Ipswich, 11.47."

Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 558 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Bulbophyllum johnsonii T.E.Hunt legitimate

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 16 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "cult. Ipswich, Nov. 1947, T.E. Hunt 183 ex `Chilverton, Atherton Tableland, N. Queensland', Jul. 1947, Kirkwood s.n. (lectotype BRI! here designated)."

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 16 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Bulbophyllum johnsonii T.E.Hunt legitimate

Dockrill, A.W. (1994), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 2: 732 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Bulbophyllum johnsonii T.E.Hunt legitimate

Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (April 2002), Nomenclatural changes in the Australian and New Zealand Bulbophyllinae and Eriinae (Orchidaceae). The Orchadian 13(11): 500 [basionym]

basionym of: Serpenticaulis kirkwoodiae (T.E.Hunt) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

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: 5, 82 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Bulbophyllum kirkwoodae T.E.Hunt orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Serpenticaulis kirkwoodiae (T.E.Hunt) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 709 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Serpenticaulis johnsonii (T.E.Hunt) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

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