Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Orchidaceae Juss.
Dendrobium x gracillimum ( Rupp) Leaney
, legitimate , named hybrid
Leaney, R.F. (1934) , Dendrobiums of Australia. Orchidologia Zeylanica 1(2) :
73-74
[comb. et stat. nov.]
basionym:
Dendrobium speciosum var. gracillimum Rupp
legitimate
Dockrill, A.W. (1969) , Australian Indigenous Orchids :
404-405
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Dendrobium speciosum var. gracillimum Rupp
legitimate
Text:
"D. X gracillimum ... almost certainly originated as a hybrid, or series of hybrids, between D. speciosum and D. gracilicaule ."
Williams, K.A.W. (1984) , Native Plants of Queensland 2 :
100
[secondary reference]
Jones, D.L. (1988) , Native Orchids of Australia :
455
[secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Orchidaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3 :
436
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Dendrobium speciosum var. gracillimum Rupp
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Dendrobium speciosum var. bancroftianum Rchb.f.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Dendrobium speciosum f. bancroftianum ( Rchb.f.) F.M.Bailey
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Dendrobium x gracilosum Clemesha
legitimate
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989) , Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1 :
53-54
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Dendrobium speciosum var. gracillimum Rupp
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Tropilis x gracillima ( Rupp) Butzin
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Tropilis x gracillima ( Rupp) Rauschert
isonym
taxonomic synonym:
Dendrobium x gracilosum Clemesha
legitimate
Text:
"Generally accepted as a natural hybrid between D. gracilicaule and D. tarberi (syn D. speciosum var. hillii )."
Dockrill, A.W. (1993) , Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1 :
504-506
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Dendrobium speciosum var. gracillimum Rupp
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Tropilis x gracillima ( Rupp) Butzin
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Tropilis x gracillima ( Rupp) Rauschert
isonym
taxonomic synonym:
Dendrobium speciosum var. bancroftianum Rchb.f.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Dendrobium speciosum var. nitidum F.M.Bailey
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Dendrobium speciosum f. bancroftianum ( Rchb.f.) F.M.Bailey
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Dendrobium x gracilosum Clemesha
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Dendrobium x nitidum ( F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
legitimate
isonym:
Dendrobium x gracillimum ( Rupp) Rupp
isonym
Putative natural hybrid between Dendrobium gracicaule F.Muell. var. gracicaule and Dendrobium speciosum var. hillii Masters
Bishop, A. (1996) , Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 1 :
190, Plate 457
[secondary reference]
Bishop, A. (2000) , Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 2 :
190, Plate 457
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Dendrobium speciosum var. gracillimum Rupp
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Dendrobium x gracillimum ( Rupp) Rupp
isonym
nomenclatural synonym:
Tropilis x gracillima ( Rupp) Butzin
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Tropilis x gracillima ( Rupp) Rauschert
isonym
nomenclatural synonym:
Tropilus x gracillima Dockrill
orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Thelychiton x gracillimus ( Rupp) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Dendrobium speciosum var. nitidum F.M.Bailey
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Dendrobium x gracilosum Clemesha
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Dendrobium nitidum D.L.Jones
nom. inval.
taxonomic synonym:
Dendrobium x nitidum ( F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Thelychiton x nitidus ( F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
legitimate
APC Comment:
A hybrid taxon involving Dendrobium speciosum and D. gracilicaule (fide P.A.Leaney, Orchidologia Zeylanica 1: 73 (1934); A.W.Dockrill, Austral. Indig. Orchids 1: 404–405 (1969); D.L.Jones, Native Orchids Australia 117 (1988); E.M.Ross in T.D.Stanley & E.M.Ross, Fl. South-eastern Queensland 3: 372 (1989), as D. macropus subsp. gracilicaule ) or D. gracilicaule and D. speciosum var. speciosum or D. gracilicaule and D. speciosum var. grandiflorum (fide S.C.Clemesha, Orchadian 8(8): 177 (1986)) or D. gracilicaule and D. speciosum var. hillii (fide A.W.Dockrill, Austral. Indig. Orchids 2nd edn, 1: 266 (1993)) or D. gracilicaule and D. tarberi (fide Austral. Orchid Name Index , as Thelychiton gracilicaulis and T. tarberi ).
APC Dist.:
Qld
Jones, D.L. (January 2021) , Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3 :
692
[nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of:
Thelychiton x gracillimus ( Rupp) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
legitimate