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

• Type: "Eumundi, and plant now (September) flowering at Bowen Park."

Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 5: 1526 [basionym]

basionym of: Dendrobium speciosum f. grandiflorum (F.M.Bailey) F.M.Bailey legitimate

Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 386, 388 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium speciosum f. grandiflorum (F.M.Bailey) F.M.Bailey legitimate

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

common name: Golden King Orchid [n/a]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Orchidaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 435 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium speciosum f. grandiflorum (F.M.Bailey) F.M.Bailey legitimate

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 60 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Dendrobium rex 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): 8 [basionym]

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

Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1: 470-471, Pl. 59 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium speciosum f. grandiflorum (F.M.Bailey) F.M.Bailey legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium rex M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium speciosum subsp. grandiflorum (F.M.Bailey) D.P.Banks & Clemesha legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium rex D.L.Jones nom. inval.

Jessup, L.W. (2005), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 3 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [nomenclatural synonym]

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

Jones, D.L., Clements, M.A. & Sharma, I.K. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (2006), Towards a revision of the Thelychiton speciosus group. Australian Orchid Research 5: 40 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Thelychiton rex (M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones) 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 [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]

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

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