Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Orchidaceae Juss.
Cyanicula gertrudae (Hopper & A.P.Br. , legitimate , scientific
Hopper, S.D. & Brown, A.P. (June 2000) , New genera , subgenera, combinations, and species in the Caladenia alliance (Orchidaceae: Diurideae). Lindleyana 15(2)
123
[comb. nov.]
basionym:
Caladenia gertrudae Ostenf. legitimate
Jones, D.L., Clements, M.A., Sharma, I.K. & Mackenzie, A.M. (September 2001) , A new classification of Caladenia R.Br. (Orchidaceae). The Orchadian 13(9)
403
[secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Flora of the South West 1
361
[secondary reference]
common name:
Pale China Orchid [n/a]
Western Australian Herbarium (2003) , FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2
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[secondary reference]
Hopper, S.D. & Brown, A.P. (29 April 2004) , Robert Brown's Caladenia revisited, including a revision of its sister genera Cyanicula, Ericksonella and Pheladenia (Caladeniinae: Orchidaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 17(2)
220-222, Fig. 8 (map)
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Caladenia gertrudae Ostenf. legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Pentisea gertrudae (Szlach. legitimate
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008) , Orchids of Western Australia
140
[secondary reference]
common name:
Pale china orchid [n/a]
Etymology:
"named for Gertrude who was the first to collect the orchid" [sic ; actually named for Gertrud Hansen Ostenfeld, the illustrator of the original description of Caladenia gertrudae and the daugher of C.E.H.Ostenfeld (the author of that name)]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011) , Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3
198
[secondary reference]
common name:
Pale China Orchid [n/a]
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
20, 127
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018) , Australian Plant Census
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[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Cyanicula gertrudiae Hopper & A.P.Br. orth. var.
orthographic variant:
Cyanicula gertrudeae G.N.Backh., R.J.Bates, A.P.Br. & L.M.Copel. orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Caladenia gertrudae Ostenf. legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Pentisea gertrudeae Szlach. orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Pentisea gertrudae (Szlach. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Cyanicula gertrudiae N.Hoffman & A.P.Br. nom. inval.
taxonomic synonym:
Cyanicula gertrudiae Paczk. & A.R.Chapm. nom. inval.
Jones, D.L. (January 2021) , Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3
193-194
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Caladenia gertrudae Ostenf. legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Pentisea gertrudae (Szlach. legitimate
common name:
Pale China Orchid [n/a]
Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022) , Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021. Nuytsia 33
6
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Cyanicula gertrudiae Hopper & A.P.Br. orth. var.
Brown, A. (19 July 2022) , The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 1
230
[secondary reference]
common name:
Pale China Orchid [n/a]
Etymology:
"Named in honour of Miss Gertrud Ostenfeld the daughter of Carl Ostenfeld who collected the type specimen and named the species."
