Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Diuris laevis

Orchidaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Asparagales(ordo)
Orchidaceae(fam.)
Diuris(gen.)
laevis(sp.)

Diuris laevis Fitzg.

, legitimate

, scientific

Fitzgerald, R.D. (1882), New Australian Orchids.

Gardeners' Chronicle, n.ser

:

495

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Western Australia."

George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia.

:

179

BHL

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Western Australia."

Text: "The original spelling was laertis which was altered without explanation to laevis in Australian Orchids. As the former has no apparent meaning it seems best to regard it as a typographical error and maintain laevis, which has been used by all subsequent workers."
Text: "In Australian Orchids, 2:3, Fitzgerald cites Albany. There is one sheet at BM, labelled 'Wilson's Inlet, Sept.' in Fitzgerald's hand, which may be taken as the lectotype."

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984), Orchids of South-West Australia

:

362-363

[secondary reference]

common name:

Nanny-Goat Orchid

[n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

55

[secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia

:

234-235

[secondary reference]

common name:

Nanny Goat Orchid

[n/a]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae.

Australian Orchid Research

:

68

[secondary reference]

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2

:

413

[secondary reference]

common name:

Nanny Goat Orchid

[n/a]

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised)

:

413

[secondary reference]

common name:

Nanny Goat Orchid

[n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1

:

365

[secondary reference]

common name:

Nannygoat Orchid

[n/a]

Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia

:

176

[secondary reference]

common name:

Nanny goat orchid

[n/a]

Etymology: "smooth, alluding to the smooth leaves of this species"

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3

:

496

[secondary reference]

common name:

Nanny Goat 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

:

24, 128

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Diuris laertis Fitzg.

orth. var.

APC Dist.: WA

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3

:

246

[secondary reference]

common name:

Nanny Goat Orchid

[n/a]

Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 1

:

274

[secondary reference]

common name:

Nanny Goat Orchid

[n/a]

Etymology: "From the Latin laevis (smooth), in reference to the glabrous leaves."