Orchidaceae Juss.
Dendrobium dicuphum F.Muell. , legitimate, scientific
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(59): 28 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: (not cited.)
misapplication: Dendrobium bigibbum Lindl. & Paxton legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(44): 119
  • Comment: Publication of this species name is validated by Mueller's reference to a previously and effectively published description in Fragm. 6(44): 119 (1868), under the name Dendrobium bigibbum Lindl. (ICN Art. 38.1 (Melbourne Code, 2012)).
Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 277-278 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Type: "Liverpool river, Gulliver; and probably the same, but our specimen without flowers, Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 412."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 110 BHL [secondary reference]
Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 654 [basionym]
basionym of: Callista dicupha (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate
Kraenzlin, F.W.L. in Engler, H.G.A. (15 November 1910), Orchidaceae: Monandrae- Dendrobiinae, Part I. Das Pflanzenreich 45: 258 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Type: "Austromalayische Provinz: Nord-Australien, Gebiet des Liverpool-Flusses (Gulliver!) und vermutlich auch bei Port Darwin (Schultz n. 412!). — Ex viv. cult.!"
Gardner, C.A. (1923), Botanical notes : Kimberley Division of Western Australia. Bulletin (Western Australian Forests Department) 32: 40 [secondary reference]
Rupp, H.M.R. (1 September 1943), Dendrobium dicuphum F. Muell. The North Queensland Naturalist 11(69): 2, fig. [secondary reference]
Rupp, H.M.R. & Hunt, T.E. (15 January 1948), A review of the genus Dendrobium (Orchidaceae) in Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 72: 241 BHL [secondary reference]
Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 321 [secondary reference]
Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 216 [secondary reference]
Blake, S.T. (1964), Dendrobium bigibbum, Dendrobium phalaenopsis and the Cooktown Orchid. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 74(4): 41-42 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "Type: Liverpool R. (N.T.) B.Gulliver (MEL)."
taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium dicuphum var. grandiflorum Rupp & T.E.Hunt legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium dicuphum var. album E.W.Cooper nom. inval.
Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 444-445 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Callista dicupha (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium dicuphum var. grandiflorum Rupp & T.E.Hunt legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium dicuphum var. album E.W.Cooper nom. inval. misapplication: Dendrobium bigibbum Lindl. & Paxton legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(44): 119
George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2): 178 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Type: "Liverpool River, N.T., B. Gulliver - iso.: K."
Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 228 BHL [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 55 [secondary reference]
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 435, 447 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. legitimate
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 46 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. legitimate
Wilson, A.J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Orchidaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1007 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. legitimate
Dockrill, A.W. (1994), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 2: 596 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. legitimate
Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (April 2002), Nomenclatural changes in the Dendrobieae (Orchidaceae) 1: The Australasian Region. The Orchadian 13(11): 492 [basionym]
basionym of: Vappodes dicupha (F.Muell.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 370 [secondary reference]
common name: Native Dendrobium [n/a]
  • Etymology: "bent yoke of a plough, alluding to the double spur on the labellum"
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, 81, 128 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Callista dicupha (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium dicuphum F.Muell. var. dicuphum legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Vappodes dicupha (F.Muell.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium dicuphum var. grandiflorum Rupp & T.E.Hunt legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium dicuphum var. album E.W.Cooper nom. inval. misapplication: Dendrobium bigibbum Lindl. & Paxton legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(44): 119 misapplication: Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. legitimate by Upton, W.T. (1989), Dendrobium Orchids of Australia: 19 misapplication: Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. legitimate by Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 46 misapplication: Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. legitimate by Dockrill, A.W. (1994), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 2: 596-598, Pl. 82
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 675 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Durabaculum dicuphum D.L.Jones nom. inval.
Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021. Nuytsia 33: 6 [secondary reference]
misapplication: Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. legitimate by Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 46
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2: 300 [secondary reference]
common name: Native Dendrobium [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Greek dis (double) and -cuphon (bent yoke of a plough), in reference to the double spur on the labellum."
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: 225-227, Figs 1B (map), 8 [secondary reference]
  • Type: "Northern Territory: Liverpool R., B.Gulliver s.n. (holo [sic; lecto]: MEL 624053; iso [sic; isolecto]: K, MEL 624079, W)."
nomenclatural synonym: Callista dicupha (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Vappodes dicupha (F.Muell.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium dicuphum var. grandiflorum Rupp & T.E.Hunt legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium dicuphum var. album E.W.Cooper nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Bulbophyllum sp. (KFK 10453) [n/a] misapplication: Dendrobium bigibbum Lindl. & Paxton legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(44): 119 misapplication: Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. legitimate by Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 432-434, 435, 447 misapplication: Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. legitimate by Wilson, A.J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Orchidaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1007, Fig. 302B misapplication: Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. legitimate by Dockrill, A.W. (1994), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 2: 596-598, Pl. 82 common name: White butterfly orchid [n/a]
Dowe, J.L. & Short, P.S. (2 February 2024), The Gullivers’ travels: Thomas Allen Gulliver (1848–1931), Benjamin John Gulliver (1851–1938) and Susannah Gulliver (1857–1938): their contribution to Australian natural history and horticulture. Swainsona 38: 60 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "(second-step, here designated): Liverpool River, s.dat., B. Gulliver s.n. (MEL624053). Isolectotypes: MEL624079, K001085456 (received 1873; fide JSTOR-GP) and W (n.v., as per Clements 1989)."
  • Text: "Blake’s reference to the “type” is considered as a lectotypification, restricting the type to MEL. [...] As such, the second-step lectotype is designated above, according to the rules of the ICN. In APNI.