Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Dendrobium x kestevenii
Orchidaceae Juss.
Dendrobium x kestevenii Rupp , legitimate, named hybrid
Rupp, H.M.R. (1931), Further notes on the orchids of the south Maitland coalfields, with description of a new Dendrobium from Bullahdelah. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 56(2): 137-138, textfig. 4 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "This very beautiful orchid was sent to me in September, 1930, by Dr. H.L. Kesteven of Bullahdelah, whose sons had discovered it on the rocks of the eastern side of Alum Mountain."
Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales: 114 [secondary reference]
Leaney, R.F. (September 1960), Dendrobium kingianum. Australian Plants 1(4): 19 [basionym]
basionym of: Dendrobium x delicatum var. x kestevenii (Rupp) Leaney legitimate
Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 416 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium x delicatum (F.M.Bailey) F.M.Bailey legitimate
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 459-460 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "... is a natural hybrid between D. speciosum var. speciosum and D. kingianum."
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 55 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium x kestevenii var. coloratum Rupp legitimate
Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1: 510 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Dendrobium x delicatum (F.M.Bailey) F.M.Bailey legitimate
Bishop, A. (1996), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 1: 189, Plate 455 [secondary reference]
Bishop, A. (2000), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 2: 189, Plate 455 [secondary reference]
Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (April 2002), Nomenclatural changes in the Dendrobieae (Orchidaceae) 1: The Australasian Region. The Orchadian 13(11): 491 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Thelychiton x kestevenii (Rupp) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Dendrobium kestervenii A.D.Chapm. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium x kestevenii Rupp var. kestevenii legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium x delicatum var. x kestevenii (Rupp) Leaney legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium kestervenii A.D.Chapm. var. kestervenii orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Thelychiton x kestevenii (Rupp) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium x kestevenii var. coloratum Rupp legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium kestervenii var. coloratum A.D.Chapm. orth. var.
  • APC Comment: A hybrid involving Dendrobium speciosum and D. kingianum (fide D.L.Jones, Native Orchids Australia 117 (1988); Austral. Orchid Name Index, as Thelychiton speciosus and T. kingianus).
  • APC Dist.: NSW
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 692 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Thelychiton x delicatus (F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate