Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Disa

Orchidaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Asparagales(ordo)
Orchidaceae(fam.)
Disa(gen.)

, legitimate

, scientific

Bergius, P.J. (1767), Descriptiones Plantarum ex Capite Bonae Spei

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348

[tax. nov.]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae.

Australian Orchid Research

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66

[secondary reference]

Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia

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151

[secondary reference]

common name:

South African orchids

[n/a]

Etymology: "named for the mythical Swedish goddess of Uppsala"

Bytebier, B., Bellstedt, D.U. & Linder, H.P. (2008), A new phylogeny-based sectional classification for the large African orchid genus Disa.

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1241-1242

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Monadenia Lindl.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census

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-

[secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

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281

[secondary reference]

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3

:

381

[secondary reference]

common name:

South African Orchid

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census

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- APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3

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765

[secondary reference]

Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 1

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242

[secondary reference]

common name:

South African Orchids

[n/a]

Etymology: "Named in honour of Disa, the mythical Swedish goddess of Uppsala."