Clemesha, S.C. (September 1982), A new variety of Dendrobium speciosum Sm. from central Queensland. The Orchadian 7(5): 103106, figs 2-4, 6 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "From a plant collected and cultivated by S. Clemesha. This was collected with proper authority near a disused quarry on an old volcanic plug about 8 km inland from Yeppoon, Queensland, in May, 1978. It flowered in cultivation on July 24, 1981. The Type specimen is in the Queensland Herbarium and a specimen taken from the same plant (when it flowered in the following year) is in the National Herbarium of N.S.W."

• Comment: Clements, Austral. Orchid Res. 1 (1989) 51 wrongly gives the holo as being in NSW.

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 478 [secondary reference]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 51 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium curvicaule (F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

Banks, D.P. & Clemesha, S.C. (1990), Dendrobium speciosum: a review of the species. Australian Orchid Review 55(6): 9 [basionym]

basionym of: Dendrobium speciosum subsp. capricornicum (Clemesha) D.P.Banks & Clemesha legitimate

Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1: 464-465 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium speciosum subsp. capricornicum (Clemesha) D.P.Banks & Clemesha legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium curvicaule (F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (April 2002), Nomenclatural changes in the Dendrobieae (Orchidaceae) 1: The Australasian Region. The Orchadian 13(11): 491 [basionym]

basionym of: Thelychiton capricornicus (Clemesha) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

Adams, P.B., Burke, J.M. & Lawson, S.D. (27 April 2006), A review of the taxonomy and relationships of the Dendrobium speciosum complex (Orchidaceae), and recognition of two new taxa. Telopea 11(2): 216, 217 [secondary reference]

Adams, P.B., Burke, J.M. & Lawson, S.D. (10 January 2011), A new hierarchy conserving nomenclature for the Dendrobium speciosum Sm. complex (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae). Muelleria 29(1): 82 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Thelychiton capricornicus (Clemesha) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

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: 22, 86 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Dendrobium speciosum subsp. capricornicum (Clemesha) D.P.Banks & Clemesha legitimate

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 687 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Thelychiton speciosus (Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

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