Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Orchidaceae Juss.
Prasophyllum elatum R.Br. , legitimate , scientific
Brown, R. (27 March 1810) , Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805
318
[tax. nov.]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875) , Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874
89
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants
112
[secondary reference]
Rodway, L. (1903) , The Tasmanian Flora
193
[secondary reference]
misapplication:
Prasophyllum australe R.Br. legitimate
by Hooker, J.D. (3 May 1858) , The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(6)
Dixon, W.A. (1906) , The Plants of New South Wales
262
[secondary reference]
Sargent, O.H. (1906) , Orchids occurring in York. Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society 2(3)
11
[secondary reference]
Sulman, F. (1914) , A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II
187, 190, Plate LX
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
Rogers, R.S. in Black, J.M. (1922) , Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1
125
[secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1943) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1
220
[secondary reference]
Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944) , The Orchids of New South Wales
26
[secondary reference]
misapplication:
Prasophyllum australe R.Br. legitimate
by Lindley, J. (September 1840) , The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains
474
[secondary reference]
George, A.S. (5 May 1971) , A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2)
187
[secondary reference]
Type:
Port Jackson, N.S.W. Brown , Sept. - Oct. 1803 - holo.: BM, iso.: E, K.
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum macrotys Lindl. legitimate
Curtis, W.M. (1980) , Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A
67
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales
31
[secondary reference]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984) , Orchids of South-West Australia
246, 254-255
[secondary reference]
common name:
Snake Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Piano Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
Bates, R. (September 1984) , Pollination of Prasophyllum elatum R.Br. (with notes on associated biology). The Orchadian 8(1)
14-17
[secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2
56
[secondary reference]
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987) , Orchidaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2
832-833
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
Jones, D.L. (1988) , Native Orchids of Australia
252-253
[secondary reference]
common name:
Snake Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Piano Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
Jones, D.L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Prasophyllum. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3
381
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum macrotys Lindl. legitimate
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989) , Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1
112
[secondary reference]
Lectotype:
"`Port Jackson', Sep.–Oct. 1803, R. Brown s.n. (lectotype specimen (a) BM! here designated, isolectotype E! K! P!)."
Bates, R.J. & Weber, J.Z. (7 December 1990) , Orchids of South Australia
108 (map), Fig. 145, Plates 129-130
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall leek-orchid
[n/a]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992) , Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2
312
[secondary reference]
common name:
Snake Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Piano Orchid [n/a]
Bernhardt, P. & Rowe, R.R. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Prasophyllum. Flora of New South Wales 4
158
[secondary reference]
common name:
Piano Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
Bates, R.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Prasophyllum. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2
871
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek-orchid [n/a]
Bishop, A. (1996) , Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 1
38, Plate 89
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998) , Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised)
312
[secondary reference]
common name:
Snake Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Piano Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
Jones, D.L. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (1 August 1998) , A taxonomic review of Prasophyllum in Tasmania. Australian Orchid Research 3
104
[secondary reference]
Jones, D.L., Wapstra, H., Tonelli, P. & Harris, S. (1999) , The Orchids of Tasmania
190
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
Etymology:
"tall, stately"
Bishop, A. (2000) , Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 2
38, Plate 89
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Flora of the South West 1
381-382
[secondary reference]
common name:
Snake Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Piano Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
Jeanes, J.A. in Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003) , Orchidaceae. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7
24
[secondary reference]
Barker, W.R., Barker, R.M., Jessop, J. & Vonow, H. (ed.) (18 March 2005) , Census of South Australian Vascular Plants 5th Edition. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens Supplement 1
198
[secondary reference]
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008) , Orchids of Western Australia
256
[secondary reference]
common name:
snake orchid [n/a]
common name:
piano orchid [n/a]
common name:
Tall leek orchid [n/a]
Etymology:
"lofty, tall, alluding to the tall flower spikes"
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011) , Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3
373
[secondary reference]
common name:
Snake Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Piano Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016) , Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2
234-235, photos 13-16, 236
[secondary reference]
common name:
Piano Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016) , Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island
100
[secondary reference]
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
32, 73, 89, 97, 106, 115, 130
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018) , Australian Plant Census
-
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Prasophyllum elatum R.Br. var. elatum legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas
Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (2019) , Notes on Australasian orchids 5: Paraprasophyllum, a new genus in Prasophyllinae (Diurideae). Australian Orchid Review 84(5)
30
[secondary reference]
Jones, D.L. (January 2021) , Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3
308
[secondary reference]
common name:
Piano Orchid [n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
Brown, A. (19 July 2022) , The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2
90
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid [n/a]
Etymology:
"From the Latin elatus (lofty, tall), in reference to the tall plant height."
