Swartz, O. (1799), Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis ser. 2, 6: 82 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1978) No. 1694). For note on typification see R.E.Holttum et al., Taxon 28 (1979) 409.

Smith, J.E. (1804), Exotic Botany 1: 17, t. 10 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1861), Sixth Systematic Index of the Plants indigenous to the Colony of Victoria. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 18 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 110 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pedilonum Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Coelandria Fitzg. legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Thelychiton Endl. legitimate

Kuntze, C.E.O. in Post, T. von & Kuntze, O. (1903), Lexikon Generum Phanerogamarum: 90 [basionym]

basionym of: Callista sect. Dendrobium (Sw.) Kuntze legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 250-251, 253 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 519 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 169 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: From the Greek dendron (a tree) and bios (life) because the genus grow on trees or often on rocks.

Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales: 112-122 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 460 [secondary reference]

Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 325-499 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2): 178 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A: 129 [secondary reference]

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Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 28 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (August 1982), Nomenclature. Report of the committee for Spermatophyta, 24. Taxon 31: 542 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Dendrobium moniliforme (L.) Sw. (typ. cons.)

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 429-431 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Orchidaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 432-433 [secondary reference]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 45 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Callista Lour. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Ceraia Lour. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Aporum Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Grastidium Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Onychium Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pedilonum Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Thelychiton Endl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Tropilis Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Latourea Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dichopus Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Coelandria Fitzg. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sayeria Kraenzl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Katherinea A.D.Hawkes legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trachyrhizum (Schltr.) Brieger legitimate taxonomic synonym: Latourorchis Brieger legitimate taxonomic synonym: Conostalix (Kraenzl.) Brieger legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dockrillia Brieger legitimate taxonomic synonym: Australorchis Brieger legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrocoryne Brieger nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Monanthos (Schltr.) Brieger legitimate

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 52, 78, 107, 189, 236, 277, 426, 440 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Callista Lour. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Grastidium Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Thelychiton Endl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Tropilis Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Latourea Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Coelandria Fitzg. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Australorchis Brieger legitimate taxonomic synonym: Monanthos (Schltr.) Brieger legitimate

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Orchidaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1006-1007 [secondary reference]

Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1: 436-437 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Callista Lour. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Ceraia Lour. nom. rej.

Du Puy, D.J., Jones, D.L. & Edgar, E. (1993), Orchidaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 523 [secondary reference]

Weston, P.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Dendrobium. Flora of New South Wales 4: 227-228 [secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Orchidaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 896 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 536-537 [secondary reference]

Bishop, A. (1996), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 1: 184 [secondary reference]

Bishop, A. (2000), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 2: 187 [secondary reference]

Clements, M.A. (4 July 2003), Molecular phylogenetic systematics in the Dendrobiinae (Orchidaceae), with emphasis on Dendrobium section Pedilonum. Telopea 10(1): 282 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium Sw. subg. Dendrobium legitimate taxonomic synonym: Peirardia Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ormostema Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Eugenanthe Schltr. legitimate

Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 369 [secondary reference]

common name: Butterfly orchids [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 261-262 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Grastidium Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Thelychiton Endl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dockrillia Brieger legitimate

Clements, M.A. & Cootes, J. (2009), The systematics of the Orchidaceae for Flora Malesiana II: Miscellaneous Dendrobieae from the Philippines. OrchideenJournal 16(1): 19 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Dendorobium Dockrill orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium Sw. sect. Dendrobium legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium Sw. subg. Dendrobium legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceraja Lour. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Ceraia Lour. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Callista Lour. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Pedilonum (Blume) Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pedilonum Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Onychium Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Aporum Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Calista Ritgen orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Thelychiton Endl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Tropilis Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Peirardia Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ormostema Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Dendrocoryne Lindl. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Ceratobium Lindl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Dendrocoryne Lindl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Latourea Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Latouria Blume nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Eudendrobium Lindl. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Coelandria Fitzg. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium subsect. Pedilonum (Blume) Pfitzer legitimate taxonomic synonym: Callista sect. Dendrobium (Sw.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Strebloceras Schltr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Eleutheroglossum Schltr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Superbientia Kraenzl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Conostalix Kraenzl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium subg. Dendrocoryne (Lindl.) Kraenzl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium subg. Pedilonum (Blume) Kraenzl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Trachyrhizum Schltr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Phalaenanthe Schltr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium subsect. Aporopsis Schltr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Monanthos Schltr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Latourea Schltr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Latouria Schltr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Callista (Lour.) Schltr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Australorchis Brieger legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trachyrhizum (Schltr.) Brieger legitimate taxonomic synonym: Aporum sect. Aporopsis (Schltr.) Brieger legitimate taxonomic synonym: Conostalix (Kraenzl.) Brieger legitimate taxonomic synonym: Monanthus Brieger orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Monanthos (Schltr.) Brieger legitimate taxonomic synonym: Latourorchis Brieger legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrocoryne Brieger nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Australorchis (Brieger) Dockrill legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium sect. Superbientes Dockrill orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Tropilus Dockrill orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Stelbophyllum D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Stilbophyllum D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Tetrabaculum M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leioanthum M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate taxonomic synonym: Davejonesia M.A.Clem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cepobaculum M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate taxonomic synonym: Vappodes M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate taxonomic synonym: Aporopsis (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate taxonomic synonym: x Vappaculum M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleutheroglossum (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate taxonomic synonym: Durabaculum M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceratobium (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

• APC Comment: The circumscription of Dendrobium in NSW and Vic includes Dockrillia.
• APC Dist.: WA, ChI, NT, Qld, NSW, LHI, NI, Vic

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 654 [secondary reference]

Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2: 298 [secondary reference]

common name: Butterfly Orchids [n/a]

Barrett, R.L., Barrett, M.D. & Clements, M.A. (12 August 2022), A revision of Orchidaceae from the Kimberley region of Western Australia with new species of tropical Calochilus and Dipodium. Telopea 25: 225 [secondary reference]

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