Rupp, H.M.R. (1953), Australian Orchid Review 18: 18, & fig. [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Cape Tribulation, North Queensland, 1950, W.W. Mason, Junr.; flowering in Sydney, N.S.W., in early November, 1952."

Dockrill, A.W. (April 1965), The genera Diplocaulobium and Ephemerantha in Australia. The Orchadian 1(11): 132 [basionym]

basionym of: Diplocaulobium masonii (Rupp) Dockrill legitimate

Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 310 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Diplocaulobium masonii (Rupp) Dockrill legitimate

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 65 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Diplocaulobium masonii (Rupp) Dockrill legitimate

Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1: 414 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Diplocaulobium masonii (Rupp) Dockrill legitimate

Field, A.R. & Zich, F.A. (21 December 2012), Types of enigmatic north-Queensland Orchids from the Dockrill herbarium. Austrobaileya 8(4): 696-697 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Queensland. Cook District: Cape Tribulation, 1950, W.W.Mason. (holo: NSW 22393, fide M.A. Clements 8 May 1986; iso: CNS 137337 ["conveyed by St Cloud' hand written on Dockrill's original folder])."

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

nomenclatural synonym: Diplocaulobium masonii (Rupp) Dockrill legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Diplocaulobium masoni D.L.Jones orth. var.

• APC Comment: Based on cultivated material of uncertain origin. Referable to the New Guinea taxon Dendrobium stelliferum J.J.Sm. (P.D.Bostock, pers. comm. 2014), which is not known to occur in Australia.

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