Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Didymoplexis pallens
Orchidaceae Juss.
Didymoplexis pallens Griff. , legitimate, scientific
Griffith, W. (1843), Calcutta Journal of Natural History 4: 383, t. 17 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Prope caespites Bambusarum, Calcutta, Serampore."
Reichenbach, H.G. in Seemann, B.C. (1868), Orchideae. Flora Vitiensis 9: 296 [basionym]
basionym of: Epiphanes pallens (Griff.) Rchb.f. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Contributions to the phytogeography of the New Hebrides and Loyalty Islands: 22 [basionym]
basionym of: Gastrodia pallens (Griff.) F.Muell. legitimate
Hemsley, W.B. (1883), On the synonymy of the orchidaceous genus Didymoplexis Griffith and the elongation of the pedicels of D. pallens after flowering. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 20: 311 BHL [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Arethusa bengalensis Hemsl. nom. inval., pro syn.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 5 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 188 [secondary reference]
Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 218-219 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Epiphanes pallens (Griff.) Rchb.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leucorchis sylvatica Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arethusa ecristata Griff. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Apetalon minutum Wight legitimate
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 57 [secondary reference]
Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 38 [secondary reference]
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 399, 419 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Nervilia pachystomoides (F.Muell.) Dockrill legitimate
Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 41 [secondary reference]
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 65 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Epiphanes pallens (Griff.) Rchb.f. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Gastrodia pallens (Griff.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leucorchis sylvatica Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arethusa ecristata Griff. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Apetalon minutum Wight legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pogonia pachystomoides F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arethusa bengalensis Hemsl. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Didymoplexis sylvatica (Blume) Ridl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cheirostylis kanarensis Blatt. & McCann legitimate taxonomic synonym: Nervilia pachystomoides (F.Muell.) Dockrill legitimate
Wilson, A.J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Orchidaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1008, Fig. 303C [secondary reference]
Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1: 256-257, Pl. 35 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Epiphanes pallens (Griff.) Rchb.f. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Gastrodia pallens (Griff.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leucorchis sylvatica Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arethusa ecristata Griff. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Apetalon minutum Wight legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pogonia pachystomoides F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arethusa bengalensis Hemsl. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Didymoplexis sylvatica (Blume) Ridl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cheirostylis kanarensis Blatt. & McCann legitimate taxonomic synonym: Nervilia pachystomoides (F.Muell.) Dockrill legitimate
Du Puy, D.J., Jones, D.L. & Edgar, E. (1993), Orchidaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 520 [secondary reference]
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 374 [secondary reference]
common name: Lily of the valley orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "pale, alluding to the pale flower colouration"
Backhouse, G.N., Bates, R.J., Brown, A.P. & Copeland, L.M. (1 March 2016), Checklist of the orchids of Australia including its island territories: 23, 81, 86, 128, 139 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Didymoplexis palens M.B.Thomas & W.J.McDonald orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Epiphanes pallens (Griff.) Rchb.f. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Gastrodia pallens (Griff.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leucorchis sylvatica Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arethusa ecristata Griff. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Apetalon minutum Wight legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pogonia pachystomoides F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arethusa bengalensis Hemsl. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Leucorchis minuta F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Didymoplexis sylvatica (Blume) Ridl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cheirostylis kanarensis Blatt. & McCann legitimate taxonomic synonym: Nervilia pachystomoides (F.Muell.) Dockrill legitimate taxonomic synonym: Apetalum minutum Dockrill orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Didymoplexis pachystomoides (F.Muell.) Garay & W.Kittr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leucanorchis sylvatica Dockrill orth. var.
  • APC Dist.: WA, ChI, NT, Qld
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 635 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Epiphanes pallens (Griff.) Rchb.f. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Gastrodia pallens (Griff.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pogonia pachystomoides F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Nervilia pachystomoides (F.Muell.) Dockrill legitimate taxonomic synonym: Didymoplexis pachystomoides (F.Muell.) Garay & W.Kittr. legitimate common name: Crystal Bells [n/a]
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2: 302 [secondary reference]
common name: Crystal Bells [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Latin pallidus (pale), in reference to the pale plant colour."
Barrett, R.L., Barrett, M.D. & Clements, M.A. (12 August 2022), A revision of Orchidaceae from the Kimberley region of Western Australia with new species of tropical Calochilus and Dipodium. Telopea 25: 229-231, Figs 1B (map), 9 [secondary reference]
  • Type: "India: near bamboo clumps, Serampor, Calcutta, W.Griffith s.n. (type: CAL, n.v. (possibly lost); icon t. 17)."
nomenclatural synonym: Epiphanes pallens (Griff.) Rchb.f. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Gastrodia pallens (Griff.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leucorchis sylvatica Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arethusa ecristata Griff. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Apetalon minutum Wight legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arethusa bengalensis Hemsl. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Didymoplexis sylvatica (Blume) Ridl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cheirostylis kanarensis Blatt. & McCann legitimate doubtful taxonomic synonym: Pogonia pachystomoides F.Muell. legitimate doubtful taxonomic synonym: Nervilia pachystomoides (F.Muell.) Dockrill legitimate doubtful taxonomic synonym: Didymoplexis pachystomoides (F.Muell.) Garay & W.Kittr. legitimate common name: Crystal bells [n/a] common name: Potato orchid [n/a]
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