Anonymous (5 October 1895), Dendrobium phalaenopsis var. hololeuca. Gardeners' Chronicle. London. Series 3 18: 396, fig. 72 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "exhibited by J.T. Holmes Esq., Beechen Cliff, Bath, at the meeting of the Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, August 13 ... the plant has since passed into the rich collection of ELIJAH ASHWORTH, Esq., Harefield Hall, Wilmslow, Cheshire."

Blake, S.T. (1964), Dendrobium bigibbum, Dendrobium phalaenopsis and the Cooktown Orchid. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 74(4): 38 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium phalaenopsis Fitzg. legitimate

Clemesha, S.C. (December 1978), A review of Dendrobium bigibbum Lindl. The Orchadian 6(2): 28 [secondary reference]

• Text: "... may have originated from Australia... "

Adams, Peter B. (2015), Dendrobium bigibbum (sect. Phalaenanthe) in Australia - analysis of diagnostic characters, review of taxa and a new classification. Kew Bulletin 70: 15 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium bigibbum var. superbum Rchb.f. legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Dendrobium phalaenopsis var. hololeucum Clemesha orth. var.

• APC Comment: A Malesian taxon, now referred to Dendrobium striaenopsis M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, but not known to occur in Australia (see also S.C.Clemesha, The Orchadian 6: 27 (1978).

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