Synadena amabilis (L.) Raf., Fl. Tellur. 4 (1836, publ. 1838) 9
Cymbidium amabile (L.) Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3 (1832) 457
Epidendrum amabile L., Sp. Pl. (1753) 953
Type: Osbeck s.n. (Java) (holo LINN)
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Phalaenopsis grandiflora Lindl., Gard. Chron. (1848) 39
Type: Veitch cult. s.n. (Java) (holo K)
Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume var. grandiflora (Lindl.) Bateman, Sec. Cent. Orchid. Pl. (1867) t. 114
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Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume var. fuscata Rchb.f., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 20 (1862) 214
Type: Low cult. s.n. (Borneo) (holo W)
Phalaenopsis grandiflora Lindl. var. fuscata (Rchb.f.) Burb., The Garden 22 (1882) 118
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Phalaenopsis grandiflora Lindl. var. aurea Hort., Proc. Hort. Soc. London 4 (1864) 135
Type: Warner cult. s.n. (neo Select. Orchid. Pl., ser. 2 (1869) t. 7, chosen by Sweet (1969))
Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume var. aurea (Hort.) Rolfe, Gard. Chron. (1886, II) 212
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Phalaenopsis grandiflora Lindl. var. ruckeri Burb., The Garden 9 (1876) 314 (nom. nud.)
Type: not designated
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Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume var. gracillima Burb., The Garden 22 (1882) 118
Type: Burbidge s.n. (Philippines, Palawan) (holo BM)
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Phalaenopsis gloriosa Rchb.f., Gard. Chron. (1888, I) 554
Type: Low cult. s.n. (no locality) (holo W)
Phalaenopsis amabilis Rchb.f. var. aphrodite Ames subvar. gloriosa (Rchb.f.) Ames, Orchid. 2 (1908) 227
Phalaenopsis aphrodite Rchb.f. var. gloriosa (Rchb.f.) Veitch, Man. Orch. Pl. 7 (1891) 25
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Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume var. fournieri Cogn., Chron. orchid. (1898) 166
Type: Regnier cult. s.n. (lost)
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Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume var. rimestadiana Linden, Lindenia 16 (1901) 35, t. 736
Type: Linden cult. s.n. (lost)
Phalaenopsis rimestadiana (Linden) Rolfe, Orchid Rev. 13 (1905) 260
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Phalaenopsis rosenstromii F.M.Bailey, Queensland Agric. J. 17 (1906) 231
Type: Rosenstrom s.n. (Australia, Daintree R.) (holo K; iso BRI)
Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume var. rosenstromii (F.M.Bailey) Nicholls, Austral. Orchid Rev. 14 (1949) 104
Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume subsp. rosenstromii (F.M.Bailey) Christenson, Phalaenopsis: a monograph (2001) 190
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Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume var. moluccana Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 10 (1911) 193
Type: Schlechter 20581 (lecto AMES, chosen by Sweet)
Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume subsp. moluccana (Schltr.) Christenson, Phalaenopsis: a monograph (2001) 189
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Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume var. papuana Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1913) 968
Type: Schlechter 18409 (B, lost; lecto AMES, chosen by Sweet (1980); iso BO, E, K, L, NSW)
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Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume var. cinerascens J.J.Sm., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 2, 25 (1917) 88
Type: Elbert s.n. (holo BO?)
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Phalaenopsis celebica Vlooten, De Orchidee 1 (1932) 125
Type: van Vlooten cult. s.n. (lost)
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Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume var. ramosa van Deventer, Orchideeën 1 (1935) 94, fig. 1 & 2
Type: van Deventer cult. (lost)