Bailey, F.M. (1896), Contributions to the Queensland flora. Botany Bulletin. Department of Agriculture, Queensland 14: 12 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Lady Elliot's Island, from whence Mr. Soutter received the plants now (September) flowering in the bushhouse, Bowen Park."

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 252 [secondary reference]

Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 388 [secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 480 [secondary reference]

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

basionym 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): 10 [basionym]

basionym of: Dendrobium speciosum subsp. curvicaule (F.M.Bailey) D.P.Banks & Clemesha legitimate

Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1: 460-463, Pl. 59 [secondary reference]

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

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 309 [secondary reference]

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 curvicaulis (F.M.Bailey) 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): 218, 220 [secondary reference]

• Neotype: Queensland. Kennedy North District: Cathu State Forest, P.B. Adams & S.D. Lawson, 27 Jun 1993 (holo: QRS; isoneo: BRI, MEL).

Adams, P.B., Burke, J.M. & Lawson, S.D. (28 April 2006), Dendrobium speciosum (Dendrocoryne: Orchidaceae) complex in north Queensland. Australian Systematic Botany 19(3): 263-267, Figs 6, 7, 8 (map) [secondary reference]

• Neotype: (here designated): Queensland. Kennedy North District: Cathu State Forest, P.B. Adams & S.D. Lawson, 27 Jun 1993 (holo: QRS; isoneo: BRI, MEL).

Adams, P.B., Burke, J.M. & Lawson, S.D. (28 April 2006), Dendrobium speciosum (Dendrocoryne: Orchidaceae) complex in north Queensland. Australian Systematic Botany 19(3): 263 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Dendrobium speciosum var. boreale Peter B.Adams, Jac.M.Burke & S.D.Lawson legitimate by Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 388

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): 83 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Thelychiton spectabilis D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 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. curvicaule (F.M.Bailey) D.P.Banks & Clemesha legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dendrobium speciosum subsp. curvicaule (F.M.Bailey) D.P.Banks & Clemesha legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Thelychiton speciosus subsp. curvicaulis D.L.Jones nom. inval.

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