Cunningham, A. in Hooker, W.J. (1 July 1837), Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Companion to the Botanical Magazine 2(24): 377 [primary reference]

• Text: "(A. C. MSS., 1824)... If it be a genuine Dendrobium , it may be called D. Caleyi..."

Steudel, E.G. von (1840), Nomenclator Botanicus Edn. 2, 1(4): 490 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium cunninghami Steud. nom. inval., nom. nud.

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

taxonomic synonym of: Bulbophyllum exiguum F.Muell. legitimate

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