Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Caladenia flava subsp. maculata
Orchidaceae Juss.
Caladenia flava subsp. maculata Hopper & A.P.Br. , legitimate, scientific
Hopper, S.D. & Brown, A.P. (21 September 2001), Contributions to Western Australian orchidology: 2. New taxa and circumscriptions in Caladenia. Nuytsia 14(1/2): 176-177, Figs 30, 33 (map) [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Kalbarri National Park, 30 km east-north-east of Kalbarri, 300 m south-east of Z Bend Car Park, 27 39'S, 114 28'E, Western Australia, 24 August 1983, S. D. Hopper 3334 (holo: PERTH 00248355; iso: CBG).
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): 200 [secondary reference]
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 114 [secondary reference]
common name: Kalbarri cowslip orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "blotched, alluding to the brown-fawn blotching on the petals and sepals"
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3: 178 [secondary reference]
common name: Kalbarri Cowslip Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "...flowers which are irregularly marked with fawny-brown blotches rather than longitudinal maroon suffusions and lines. It is this feather which gives rise to the specific name 'maculata' meaning spotted or blotched."
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: 8, 125 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Caladenia flava subsp. maculata N.Hoffman & A.P.Br. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Caladenia flava subsp. maculata N.Hoffman & A.P.Br. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Caladenia flava subsp. maculata Paczk. & A.R.Chapm. nom. inval.
  • APC Dist.: WA
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 95 [secondary reference]
common name: Spotted Cowslip Orchid [n/a]
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 1: 150 [secondary reference]
common name: Kalbarri Cowslip Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Latin maculatus (spotted, blotched), in reference to the brown-fawn blotching on the dorsal sepal and petals."