Clemesha, S.C. (March 1981), A review of Dendrobium speciosum Sm. The Orchadian 6(11): 261-262 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "From a plant cultivated at Coffs Harbour by S.C. Clemesha, 26th August, 1980. From a plant collected by Mr. Bruce Gray at Bones Knob via Atherton where it grew on an exposed rockface in full sun. The Holotype is at the Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane and an Isotype specimen is at N.S.W. National Herbarium in Sydney."

• Comment: M.A.Clements, Austral. Orchid Res. 1 (1989) 58 wrongly gives the holo as being at NSW and the iso at BRI.

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 480, 482 [secondary reference]

common name: Dwarf Rock Orchid [n/a]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 58 [basionym]

basionym of: Dendrobium pedunculatum (Clemesha) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate

Banks, D.P. & Clemesha, S.C. (1990), Dendrobium speciosum: a review of the species. Australian Orchid Review 55(6): 11 [basionym]

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

Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1: 466-467, Pl. 59 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium pedunculatum (Clemesha) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium speciosum subsp. pedunculatum (Clemesha) D.P.Banks & Clemesha legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium pedunculatum D.L.Jones nom. inval.

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 pedunculatus (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): 224 [secondary reference]

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): 267-268, 270, Figs 7, 8 [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): 83 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dendrobium speciosum subsp. pedunculatum (Clemesha) D.P.Banks & Clemesha 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: 23, 86 [secondary reference]

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

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

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 688 [taxonomic synonym]

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

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