Rupp, H.M.R. (1952), Notes on Australian orchids. The Victorian Naturalist 69: 116, & fig. [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Growing on Wormia alata in the mangrove scrubs of Trinity Bay, Cairns district, N. Queensland (leg S.F. Goessling-St. Cloud, August 1952 – TYPE, in NSW)."

Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 468 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium discolor Lindl. legitimate

Cribb, P.J. (15 August 1986), A revision of Dendrobium sect. Spatulata (Orchidaceae). Kew Bulletin 41(3): 665 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium discolor Lindl. legitimate

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 52 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium discolor Lindl. var. discolor legitimate

Dockrill, A.W. (1994), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 2: 552 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium discolor Lindl. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium discolor Lindl. legitimate

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 671 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Durabaculum discolor D.L.Jones nom. inval.

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