Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Didymoplexis
Orchidaceae Juss.
Didymoplexis Griff. , legitimate, scientific
Griffith, W. (1843), Calcutta Journal of Natural History 4: 383 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Didymoplexis pallens Griff.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 5 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Leucorchis E.Mey. legitimate
  • Comment: Mueller lists "Leucorchis = Didymoplexis, ...". Neither Leucorchis E.Mey nor Didymoplexis Griff were previously accepted by Mueller in his Systematic Census (1882) but Didymoplexis is the accepted genus in Mueller's Second Systematic Census p. 188 (1889). Therefore Didymoplexis is here treated as being the accepted name in this Supplement with Leucorchis in synonymy.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 188 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Leucorchis E.Mey. legitimate
Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 217-219 [secondary reference]
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 399 [secondary reference]
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 65 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Apetalon Wight legitimate
Wilson, A.J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Orchidaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1008 [secondary reference]
Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1: 255 [secondary reference]
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 373 [secondary reference]
common name: Crystal orchids [n/a]
  • Etymology: "two-lobed plaiting, alluding to the partially joined lateral sepals"
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 272 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Apetalon Wight legitimate taxonomic synonym: Apetalum Dockrill orth. var. pro parte taxonomic synonym: Leucorchis E.Mey. legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Leucanorchis Dockrill orth. var.
  • APC Dist.: WA, ChI, NT, Qld
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 634 [secondary reference]
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2: 302 [secondary reference]
common name: Crystal Orchids [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Greek didymos (twin) and -plexis (plaiting), in reference to the two rows of interlocking papillae on the labellum."
Barrett, R.L., Barrett, M.D. & Clements, M.A. (12 August 2022), A revision of Orchidaceae from the Kimberley region of Western Australia with new species of tropical Calochilus and Dipodium. Telopea 25: 229 [secondary reference]