Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Caladenia elegans
Orchidaceae Juss.
Caladenia elegans 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): 221-224, Figs 51 (map), 52 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: west-north-west of Northampton, Western Australia, 24 August 1983, S.D. Hopper 3347 (holo: PERTH 00270733; iso: CBG).
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): 454 [basionym]
basionym of: Calonema elegans (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): 35 [basionym]
basionym of: Calonemorchis elegans (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): 181 [basionym]
basionym of: Jonesiopsis elegans (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): 203 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis elegans (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Calonema elegans (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Jonesiopsis elegans (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis elegans (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Calonema elegans (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Jonesiopsis elegans (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Caladenia sp. 9 (Northampton) [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Caladenia sp. (Muir) S.D.Hopper 3521 [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Caladenia elegans N.Hoffman & A.P.Br. nom. inval.
  • APC Dist.: WA
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 50 [secondary reference]
common name: Elegant spider orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "elegant, alluding to the attractive flowers"
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3: 69 [secondary reference]
common name: Elegant 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: 8, 124 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Calonema elegans (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis elegans (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Jonesiopsis elegans (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Caladenia sp. (Northampton) S.D.Hopper 3347 [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Caladenia sp. 9 (Northampton) [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Caladenia elegans N.Hoffman & A.P.Br. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Caladenia elegans N.Hoffman & A.P.Br. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Caladenia elegans Anon. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Caladenia elegans Paczk. & A.R.Chapm. nom. inval. pro parte taxonomic synonym: Caladenia sp. Muir (S.D.Hopper 3521) [n/a]
  • APC Dist.: WA
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 175 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis elegans (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Jonesiopsis elegans (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate common name: Elegant Spider Orchid [n/a]
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 1: 102 [secondary reference]
common name: Elegant Spider Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Latin elegans (elegant), i n reference to the attractive flowers.