Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Caladenia falcata
Orchidaceae Juss.
Caladenia falcata (Nicholls) M.A.Clem. & Hopper , legitimate, scientific
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 24 [comb. et stat. nov.]
basionym: Caladenia dilatata var. falcata Nicholls legitimate
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2: 116 [secondary reference]
common name: Fringed Mantis Orchid [n/a] common name: Green Spider Orchid [n/a]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised): 116 [secondary reference]
common name: Fringed Mantis Orchid [n/a] common name: Green Spider Orchid [n/a]
Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 78 [secondary reference]
Jones, D.L., Clements, M.A., Sharma, I.K. & Mackenzie, A.M. (September 2001), A new classification of Caladenia R.Br. (Orchidaceae). The Orchadian 13(9): 394 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Arachnorchis falcata (Nicholls) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate
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): 72-75, Figs 9 (map), 10 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Caladenia dilatata var. falcata Nicholls 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): 192 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Caladenia dilatata var. falcata Nicholls legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Arachnorchis falcata (Nicholls) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis falcata (Nicholls) Szlach. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Calonema falcatum Hopper & A.P.Br. nom. inval., pro syn.
  • Comment: Although Hopper & Brown attribute Calonema falcatum to D.Szlachetko, Polish Bot. J. 46(1): 17 (2001), the name published there is Caladenia falcata (Nicholls) Szlach., an isonym.
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 92 [secondary reference]
common name: fringed mantis orchid [n/a] common name: Green spider orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "sickle shaped, alluding to the prominently upcurved lateral sepals"
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3: 143 [secondary reference]
common name: Fringed Mantis Orchid [n/a] common name: Green Spider 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: 218, 220-221, photos 1-4 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Arachnorchis falcata (Nicholls) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate common name: Fringed Mantis 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, 125 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Caladenia dilatata var. falcata Nicholls legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Arachnorchis falcata (Nicholls) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis falcata (Nicholls) Szlach. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Caladenia falcata D.L.Jones nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Calonema falcatum Hopper & A.P.Br. nom. inval., pro syn. isonym: Caladenia falcata (Nicholls) Szlach. isonym doubtful pro parte misapplication: Caladenia dilatata R.Br. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 24 doubtful pro parte misapplication: Caladenia dilatata R.Br. legitimate by Beard, J.S. in Beard, J.S. (ed.) (1970), Descriptive Catalogue of West Australian Plants Edn. 2: 31
  • APC Dist.: WA
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 149-150 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Caladenia dilatata var. falcata Nicholls legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Arachnorchis falcata (Nicholls) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis falcata (Nicholls) Szlach. legitimate common name: Fringed Mantis Orchid [n/a]
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 1: 72 [secondary reference]
common name: Fringed Mantis Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Latin falcatus (sickle shaped), in reference to the upswept lateral sepals."