Australian Orchid Name Index - Australian National Botanic Gardens

F.M.Bailey forma bancroftianum (Rchb.f.) F.M.Bailey, Queensl. fl. 5: 1526
(1902); Dendrobium jonesii Rendle subsp. bancroftianum (Rchb.f.)
M.A.Clem., Austral. Orch. Res. 1: 54 (1989). Type: cult. T.Christy ex
Australia, T.L.Bancroft s.n. (holo W!).
Dendrobium fusiforme (F.M.Bailey) F.M.Bailey forma magnifica Dockrill,
North Queensland Naturalist 24(114): 24 (1956); Dendrobium ruppianum
A.Hawkes forma magnificum (Dockrill) Dockrill, Austral. Pl. 3: 224 (1965).
Types: ‘North Queensland: Bellenden Ker’, Oct. 1951, J.H.Wilkie s.n. (holo
NSW!).
Dist: Qkn, Qco.
Thelychiton jonesii (Rendle) M.A.Clem. et D.L.Jones subsp. blackburnii (Nicholls)
M.A.Clem. et D.L.Jones, Orchadian 13(11): 491 (2002).
Basionym: Dendrobium fusiforme (F.M.Bailey) F.M.Bailey var. blackburnii
Nicholls, Victorian Naturalist 66: 255 (1950); Dendrobium ruppianum
A.Hawkes var. blackburnii (Nicholls) Dockrill, Austral. Pl. 3: 224 (1965);
Dendrobium jonesii Rendle subsp. blackburnii (Nicholls) M.A.Clem., Austral.
Orch. Res. 1: 54 (1989). Type: cult. Melbourne, W.H.Nicholls ex ‘Font Hills,
Cliff Trig, west of Port Douglas (16 o 39’ South, 145 o 08’ East), North
Queensland’, July 1945, J.A.Blackburn s.n. (holo MEL).
Dist: Qco.
Thelychiton kingianus (Bidw. ex Lindl.) M.A.Clem. et D.L.Jones, Orchadian 13(11):
491 (2002).
Basionym: Dendrobium kingianum Bidw. ex Lindl. in Edwards’s, Bot. Reg.
30: Misc. 11-12 (1844); Callista kingiana (Bidw. ex Lindl.) Kuntze, Revis.
gen. pl. 2: 654 (1891); Dendrocoryne kingianum (Bidw. ex Lindl.) Brieger,
Schlechter Die Orchideen 3(1): 724 (1981). Tropilis kingiana (Bidw. ex
Lindl.) Butzin, Willdenowia 12(2): 250 (1982) nom. illeg.; Tropilis kingiana
(Bidw. ex Lindl.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94(7-8): 470 (1983), nom. illeg.
Type: Australia [the buckens = Glousechester Buckets], 1844, J.T. Bidwill s.n.
(holo K-LINDL!).
Dendrobium kingianum Bidw. ex Lindl. var. pallidum F.M.Bailey, Proc. Roy.
Soc. Queensland 1: 11 (1884). Type: ‘On rocks Main Range, Queensland’, B.
Crow and C.H.Hartmann s.n. (holo BRI!; iso K!).
Dendrobium kingianum Bidw. ex Lindl. subvar. pallidum Veitch, Man.
Orchid. Pl. 1(3): 52 (1888), nom. illeg. Type: (not found). Notes: Veitch’s
description is legitimate under the rules of the ICBN; ‘A sub-variety called
pallidum has white flowers with a few purple stripes on the labellum’. Clearly
this is represenative of the taxon known as D. kingianum var. silcockii.
Dendrobium kingianum Bidw. ex Lindl. var. silcockii F.M.Bailey, Queensl. fl.
5: 1528 (1902). Type: ‘Towards the Tweed River’, 24 Sep. 1901, P.Silcock
s.n. (holo BRI!; iso K!).
Dendrobium kingianum Bidw. ex Lindl. var. aldersoniae F.M.Bailey,
Queensland Agric. J. 15: 781 (1905). Type: ‘Blackall Range’, G.W.Alderson
s.n. (holo BRI not found).
Dist: Nnc, Nnt, Qmo, Qdd, Qwb, Qbn.
Thelychiton macropus Endl., Prodr. Fl. Norf. 33 (1833); Dendrobium macropus
(Endl.) Rchb.f. ex Lindl., J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 3: 9 (1859); Dendrobium