Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Definitions of some new Australian Plants. The Chemist and Druggist with Australasian Supplement 4(45): 68-69 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Near Mount Zero. D. Sullivan."

• Etymology: (not specified.) [but presumably named for the collector of the type material, Daniel Sullivan (1836–1895)]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 113 [secondary reference]

Pescott, E.E. (1926), The orchids of Victoria. The Victorian Naturalist 43: 228 [basionym]

basionym of: Caleana sullivanii (F.Muell.) Pescott legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Orchidaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 367 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Paracaleana minor (R.Br.) Blaxell legitimate

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 34 [secondary reference]

• Type: "... 'Near Mt. Zero, Grampians in Victoria, Jan. 1882, D. Sullivan s.n. (holo MEL!)."

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 34 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Caleana minor R.Br. legitimate

Hopper, S.D. & Brown, A.P. (30 June 2006), Australia's wasp-pollinated flying duck orchids revised (Paracaleana: Orchidaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 19(3): 216 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Paracaleana minor (R.Br.) Blaxell legitimate

Miller, J.T. & Clements, M.A. (30 June 2014), Molecular phylogenetic analyses of Drakaeinae: Diurideae (Orchidaceae) based on DNA sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region. Australian Systematic Botany 27(1): 17 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Caleana minor R.Br. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Caleana minor R.Br. legitimate

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 288 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Sullivania minor (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate

Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (19 November 2021), Notes on Australasian Orchidaceae 7: updates on the nomenclature of Sullivania (Diurideae: Drakaeinae). Lankesteriana 21(3): 314 [basionym]

basionym of: Sullivania sullivanii (F.Muell.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate

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