Bailey, F.M. (1911), Botany. Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. Queensland Agricultural Journal 27: 306, t. XXI. [primary reference]

• Type: "... found by Mrs. T.W. Carter when living some few years ago on Pine Islet, Percy Islands, and the plant was sent to her brother, Mr. H. Barwick, of Paddington, Brisbane, in whose bushhouse it has flowered for the past two years, and he has now presented the plant to the Brisbane Botanic Gardens..."

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 525, Fig. 524 [secondary reference]

Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 470 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium discolor f. broomfieldii (Fitzg.) Dockrill legitimate

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 52 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium discolor var. broomfieldii (Fitzg.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

Dockrill, A.W. (1994), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 2: 554 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium discolor var. broomfieldii (Fitzg.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium discolor Lindl. legitimate

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