Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Caladenia x variabilis
Orchidaceae Juss.
Caladenia x variabilis Nicholls , legitimate, named hybrid
Nicholls, W.H. (1950), Additions to the Orchidaceae of Australia II. The Victorian Naturalist 66(12): 223, figs L-M [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Yarram, Victoria (leg. Miss J. Anderson, September, 1930); Wonthaggi, Victoria (leg. Miss Evelyn Bond and Mr. E.H. Homann, October, 1930). SYNTYPES in National Herbarium, South Yarra."
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 134-135 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "this taxon is a natural hybrid between Caladenia cardiochila and C. patersonii."
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 31 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "...probably a natural hybrid between Caladenia sp. aff. fragrantissima ... and C. cardiochila".
Bates, R.J. & Weber, J.Z. (7 December 1990), Orchids of South Australia: 57-58 (map), Fig. 84, Plate 68 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "The name refers to the many variable floral features."
  • Text: "... is a putative hybrid between C. patersonii and C. cardiochila."
Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Orchidaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 789 [secondary reference]
Bishop, A. (1996), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 1: 144-145, Plate 351 [secondary reference]
Bishop, A. (2000), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 2: 144-145, Plate 351 [secondary reference]
Jeanes, J.A. (20 December 2002), Some new combinations and a new hybrid genus in Orchidaceae: Diurideae, for eastern Australia. Muelleria 16: 81 [basionym]
basionym of: Arachnorchis x variabilis (Nicholls) Jeanes legitimate
Jeanes, J.A. in Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003), Orchidaceae. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7: 18, 20 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Arachnorchis x variabilis (Nicholls) Jeanes 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): 208 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Arachnorchis x variabilis (Nicholls) Jeanes legitimate
  • Comment: "Caladenia arenaria x C. cardiochila"
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Arachnorchis x variabilis (Nicholls) Jeanes legitimate
  • APC Comment: A hybrid taxon involving Caladenia cardiochila and C. patersonii var. patersonii (M.A.Clements, Prelim. Checkl. Austral. Orchidaceae 44 (1982)) or C. cardiochila and C. patersonii D.L.Jones, Native Orchids Australia 135 (1988)).
  • APC Dist.: SA
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 163 [secondary reference]
common name: Variable Spider Orchid [n/a]
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