Rupp, H.M.R. (15 May 1934), Notes on Australian orchids: a review of the genus Cymbidium in Australia. I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59: 99 [tax. nov.]

• Type: See under forms fuscum and purpurascens

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 28 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cymbidium canaliculatum R.Br. legitimate

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 43 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cymbidium canaliculatum R.Br. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Cymbidium canaliculatum R.Br. legitimate

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 747 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cymbidium canaliculatum R.Br. legitimate

Barrett, R.L., Barrett, M.D. & Clements, M.A. (12 August 2022), A revision of Orchidaceae from the Kimberley region of Western Australia with new species of tropical Calochilus and Dipodium. Telopea 25: 223 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "...(here designated): Queensland: Cairns, Oct. 1933, W.F.Tierney s.n. [Herbarium of Australian Orchids No. 387f] (lecto: NSW 807352; isolecto: NSW 807345)."

Barrett, R.L., Barrett, M.D. & Clements, M.A. (12 August 2022), A revision of Orchidaceae from the Kimberley region of Western Australia with new species of tropical Calochilus and Dipodium. Telopea 25: 223 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cymbidium canaliculatum R.Br. legitimate

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