Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Caladenia paradoxa
Orchidaceae Juss.
Caladenia paradoxa 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): 259-260, Fig. 62 (map) BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Duladgin Rock Nature Reserve, 35 km east-north-east of Southern Cross, 31° 10'S, 119° 41'E, Western Australia, 4 September 1984, S.D. Hopper 4042 (holo: PERTH 003358941; iso: AD, CBG, K, MEL)."
taxonomic synonym: Caladenia tentaculata Tate nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Caladenia filamentosa var. tentaculata R.S.Rogers legitimate
Jones, D.L., Clements, M.A., Sharma, I.S., Mackenzie, A.M. & Molloy, B.P.J. (January 2002), Nomenclatural notes arising from studies into the Tribe Diurideae (Orchidaceae). The Orchadian 13(10): 455 [basionym]
basionym of: Calonema paradoxum (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate
Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (September 2002), Nomenclatural notes arising from studies in the Tribe Diurideae (Orchidaceae): Calonemorchis. The Orchadian 14(1): 38 [basionym]
basionym of: Calonemorchis paradoxa (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate
Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (June 2003), Nomenclatural notes arising from studies into the Tribe Diurideae (Orchidaceae): Jonesiopsis. The Orchadian 14(4): 182 [basionym]
basionym of: Jonesiopsis paradoxa (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate
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): 205 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis paradoxa (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Calonema paradoxum (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Jonesiopsis paradoxa (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 46 [secondary reference]
common name: Ironcaps spider orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "contrary to expectations, alluding to the difficulty in resolving the status of this orchid"
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3: 61 [secondary reference]
common name: Ironcaps Spider 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: 10, 126 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis paradoxa (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Calonema paradoxum (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Jonesiopsis paradoxa (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Caladenia filamentosa R.Br. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 24 pro parte misapplication: Caladenia filamentosa R.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 23 pro parte misapplication: Caladenia filamentosa R.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 54 misapplication: Caladenia flaccida D.L.Jones legitimate by Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2: 48 misapplication: Caladenia flaccida D.L.Jones legitimate by Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised): 48
  • APC Dist.: WA
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 180-181 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis paradoxa (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Jonesiopsis paradoxa (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate common name: Ironcaps Spider Orchid [n/a]
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 1: 80 [secondary reference]
common name: Ironcaps Spider Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Latin paradoxus (marvellous, strange, contrary to expectations), in reference to the difficulty in resolving the distinctiveness of this species."