Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 286 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Queensland. On trees and rocks, Rodd's bay, A. Cunningham; Bersaker Range and Port Cooper, Bowman."

pro parte misapplication: Dendrobium mortii F.Muell. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1860), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(13): 93-94

• Etymology: (not specified.) [but presumably named for one of the collectors of the type material, Edward Macarthur Bowman (1826–1872)]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 526 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 541 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium mortii F.Muell. legitimate

Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales: 120 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium mortii F.Muell. legitimate

Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 360 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium mortii F.Muell. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 29 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium mortii F.Muell. legitimate

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 440-441, 470 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium mortii F.Muell. legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Orchidaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 440 [secondary reference]

Upton, W.T. (1989), Dendrobium Orchids of Australia: 33-34, Fig. 19, Pl. 20 [secondary reference]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 48 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "`Bersaker range and Port Cooper', Bowman s.n. (lectotype here designated, isolectotypes MEL! W!)"

taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium striolatum var. chalandei Finet legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium chalandei (Finet) Kraenzl. legitimate misapplication: Dendrobium mortii F.Muell. legitimate by Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 360-361

Weston, P.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Dendrobium. Flora of New South Wales 4: 230 [secondary reference]

Dockrill, A.W. (1994), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 2: 650-652 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium striolatum var. chalandei Finet legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium chalandei (Finet) Kraenzl. legitimate misapplication: Dendrobium mortii F.Muell. legitimate by Rupp, H.M.R. (1930), Guide to the Orchids of New South Wales: 28 misapplication: Dendrobium mortii F.Muell. legitimate by Rupp, H.M.R. (August 1934), Notes on certain species of Dendrobium. The Queensland Naturalist 9(4): 51 misapplication: Dendrobium mortii F.Muell. legitimate by Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales: 120 misapplication: Dendrobium mortii F.Muell. legitimate by Nicholls, W.H. in Jones, D.L. & Muir, T.B. (ed.) (1969), Orchids of Australia: 105-106, pl. 383 misapplication: Dendrobium mortii F.Muell. legitimate by Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 360-361

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]

Bishop, A. (1996), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 1: 186, Plate 445 [secondary reference]

Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. in Tkatchenko, J. (ed.) (1996), New species of Dendrobiinae (Orchidaceae) from Papua New Guinea. Lasianthera 1(1): 17 [basionym]

basionym of: Dockrillia bowmanii (Benth.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 146 [secondary reference]

Jessup, L.W. (2005), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 3 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dockrillia bowmanii (Benth.) 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: 21, 71, 85 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Dockrillia bowmanii (Benth.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 661 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dockrillia bowmanii (Benth.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

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