Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing x Cyanthera
Orchidaceae Juss.
x Cyanthera Hopper & A.P.Br. , legitimate, named hybrid
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): 233 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: x Cyanthera glossodioides Hopper & A.Br.
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 350 [secondary reference]
common name: Rare orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "derived from the first part of Cyanicula and the last part of Elythranthera"
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: x Cyanthera N.Hoffman & A.P.Br. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: x Cyanthera N.Hoffman & A.P.Br. nom. inval., nom. nud.
  • APC Dist.: WA
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 211 [secondary reference]
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2: 284 [secondary reference]
common name: Mauve Rare Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "A combination of the first part of Cyanicula and he last part of Elythanthera, signaling the parental derivation of this orchid."