Dockrill, A.W. (1 January 1955), Two new terrestrial orchids from the Ravenshoe District. The North Queensland Naturalist 23(110): 3-4 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ravenshoe district, North Queensland, 16th April, 1954, in open forest. Leg. W.W. Abell and W.G. McPherson. ... Holotype lodged in the National Herbarium of N.S.W., No. 28475."

• Etymology: "The specific name refers to the small size of the flowers."

Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 172 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Acianthus amplexicaulis (F.M.Bailey) Rolfe legitimate

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: 37 [secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 389 [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: 40 [secondary reference]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 9 [secondary reference]

Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1: 132-133 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Acianthus amplexicaulis (F.M.Bailey) Rolfe legitimate by Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 172-173

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: 308 [secondary reference]

Kores, P.J. in Holttum, R.E. (1995), A systematic study of the genus Acianthus (Orchidaceae: Diurideae). Allertonia 7(3): 172 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Acianthus amplexicaulis (F.M.Bailey) Rolfe legitimate

Bostock, P.D. & Harris, W.K. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Orchidaceae. Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens: 134 [secondary reference]

Jones, D.L., Clements, M.A., Sharma, I.S., Mackenzie, A.M. & Molloy, B.P.J. (January 2002), Nomenclatural notes arising from studies into the Tribe Diurideae (Orchidaceae). The Orchadian 13(10): 441 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Univiscidiatus sublestus D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. nom. inval.

Szlachetko, D.L. & Rutkowski, P. (2003), Quelques notes additionnelles sur la sous-famille Thelymitroideae (Orchidaceae). Richardiana 3(2): 97 [basionym]

basionym of: Acianthopsis sublestus (Dockrill) Szlach. legitimate

Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (March 2004), Acianthella, a new genus in the Acianthus alliance (Orchidaceae). The Orchadian 14(7): 331 [basionym]

basionym of: Acianthella sublesta (Dockrill) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate

Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (2017), New combinations in Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Review 82(2): 63 [basionym]

basionym of: Stigmatodactylus sublestus (Dockrill) S.P.Lyon, M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Acianthus sublestis M.B.Thomas & W.J.McDonald orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Stigmatodactylus sublestus (Dockrill) S.P.Lyon, M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

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: 10 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Stigmatodactylus sublestus (Dockrill) S.P.Lyon, M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

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