Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Dendrobium x gracillimum
Orchidaceae Juss.
Dendrobium x gracillimum (Rupp) Leaney , legitimate, named hybrid
Leaney, R.F. (1934), Dendrobiums of Australia. Orchidologia Zeylanica 1(2): 73-74 [comb. et stat. nov.]
basionym: Dendrobium speciosum var. gracillimum Rupp legitimate
Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 404-405 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium speciosum var. gracillimum Rupp legitimate
  • Text: "D. X gracillimum... almost certainly originated as a hybrid, or series of hybrids, between D. speciosum and D. gracilicaule."
Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 100 [secondary reference]
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 455 [secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Orchidaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 436 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium speciosum var. gracillimum Rupp legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium speciosum var. bancroftianum Rchb.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium speciosum f. bancroftianum (Rchb.f.) F.M.Bailey legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium x gracilosum Clemesha legitimate
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 53-54 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium speciosum var. gracillimum Rupp legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Tropilis x gracillima (Rupp) Butzin legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Tropilis x gracillima (Rupp) Rauschert isonym taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium x gracilosum Clemesha legitimate
  • Text: "Generally accepted as a natural hybrid between D. gracilicaule and D. tarberi (syn D. speciosum var. hillii)."
Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1: 504-506 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium speciosum var. gracillimum Rupp legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Tropilis x gracillima (Rupp) Butzin legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Tropilis x gracillima (Rupp) Rauschert isonym taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium speciosum var. bancroftianum Rchb.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium speciosum var. nitidum F.M.Bailey legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium speciosum f. bancroftianum (Rchb.f.) F.M.Bailey legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium x gracilosum Clemesha legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium x nitidum (F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate isonym: Dendrobium x gracillimum (Rupp) Rupp isonym
  • Comment: Putative natural hybrid between Dendrobium gracicaule F.Muell. var. gracicaule and Dendrobium speciosum var. hillii Masters
Bishop, A. (1996), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 1: 190, Plate 457 [secondary reference]
Bishop, A. (2000), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 2: 190, Plate 457 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium speciosum var. gracillimum Rupp legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dendrobium x gracillimum (Rupp) Rupp isonym nomenclatural synonym: Tropilis x gracillima (Rupp) Butzin legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Tropilis x gracillima (Rupp) Rauschert isonym nomenclatural synonym: Tropilus x gracillima Dockrill orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Thelychiton x gracillimus (Rupp) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium speciosum var. nitidum F.M.Bailey legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium x gracilosum Clemesha legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium nitidum D.L.Jones nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Dendrobium x nitidum (F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate taxonomic synonym: Thelychiton x nitidus (F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate
  • APC Comment: A hybrid taxon involving Dendrobium speciosum and D. gracilicaule (fide P.A.Leaney, Orchidologia Zeylanica 1: 73 (1934); A.W.Dockrill, Austral. Indig. Orchids 1: 404–405 (1969); D.L.Jones, Native Orchids Australia 117 (1988); E.M.Ross in T.D.Stanley & E.M.Ross, Fl. South-eastern Queensland 3: 372 (1989), as D. macropus subsp. gracilicaule) or D. gracilicaule and D. speciosum var. speciosum or D. gracilicaule and D. speciosum var. grandiflorum (fide S.C.Clemesha, Orchadian 8(8): 177 (1986)) or D. gracilicaule and D. speciosum var. hillii (fide A.W.Dockrill, Austral. Indig. Orchids 2nd edn, 1: 266 (1993)) or D. gracilicaule and D. tarberi (fide Austral. Orchid Name Index, as Thelychiton gracilicaulis and T. tarberi).
  • APC Dist.: Qld
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 692 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Thelychiton x gracillimus (Rupp) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate