Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Calochilus caeruleus
Orchidaceae Juss.
Calochilus caeruleus L.O.Williams , legitimate, scientific
Williams, L.O. (8 February 1946), Orchidaceae Novae Guineae, I. Botanical Museum Leaflets 12(5): 151-152, pl. XXII, figs 1-7 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "BRITISH NEW GUINEA: sporadic on poorly drained soils, savannah forests, Tarara, Wassi Kussa River, Western District, stems green, erect from an ovoid tuber, flowers green densely mottled and shaded with red, beard of the labellum a deep metallic blue at base, distal two thirds maroon-red, January 1937, Brass 8600 (TYPE in Herb. Ames No. 61165)."
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 1: 4 [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 57 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 6 [secondary reference]
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 310 [secondary reference]
Kenneally, K.F. (1989), Checklist of vascular plants of the Kimberley, Western Australia: 36, 71 [secondary reference]
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 35 [secondary reference]
  • Type: "... iso BM! K! L!)."
Hnatiuk, R.J. (ed.) (1990), Census of Australian Vascular Plants: 417 [secondary reference]
Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1: 160-161, Pl. 20 [secondary reference]
misapplication: Calochilus holtzei F.Muell. legitimate by Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 80-81
Western Australian Herbarium (2003), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2: - [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: 14, 81, 83 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Calochilus caerulescens Dockrill orth. var. misapplication: Calochilus holtzei F.Muell. legitimate by Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 80-81
  • APC Dist.: NT, Qld
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]
misapplied to: Calochilus caesius D.L.Jones legitimate by Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 310
[misapplied]
misapplied to: Calochilus caesius D.L.Jones legitimate by Kenneally, K.F. (1989), Checklist of vascular plants of the Kimberley, Western Australia: 36, 71
[misapplied]
misapplied to: Calochilus caesius D.L.Jones legitimate by Hnatiuk, R.J. (ed.) (1990), Census of Australian Vascular Plants: 417
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 420 [secondary reference]
common name: Wiry Beard Orchid [n/a]