Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Prasophyllum gibbosum
Orchidaceae Juss.
Prasophyllum gibbosum 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.]
  • Type: "(M.) v.v."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 112 [secondary reference]
George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2): 186, 187 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Type: King George's Sound, R. Brown Dec. 1801 - holo.: BM, iso.: K, P, PERTH.
taxonomic synonym: Prasophyllum cucullatum Rchb.f. legitimate
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984), Orchids of South-West Australia: 280-281 [secondary reference]
common name: Humped Leek Orchid [n/a]
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: 834 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Prasophyllum cucullatum Rchb.f. legitimate common name: Humped Leek Orchid [n/a]
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 255 [secondary reference]
common name: Humped Leek Orchid [n/a] common name: Hooded Leek Orchid [n/a]
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 113 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "`In paludosis ad portum Regis George's III' (King George Sound), Dec. 1801, R. Brown s.n. (lectotype specimen (a) BM! here designated, isolectotype BM! E! K! P! PERTH!)."
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2: 304 [secondary reference]
common name: Humped Leek Orchid [n/a]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised): 304 [secondary reference]
common name: Humped Leek Orchid [n/a]
Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 88 [secondary reference]
common name: Humped Leek Orchid [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 377-378 [secondary reference]
common name: Humped Leek Orchid [n/a]
Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (June 2004), Miscellaneous new species, new genera, reinstated genera and new combinations in Australian Orchidaceae. The Orchadian, Scientific Supplement 14(8): xiii [basionym]
basionym of: Chiloterus gibbosus (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 252 [secondary reference]
common name: Humped leek orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "swollen, humped, alluding to the humped appearance of the lateral sepals"
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3: 366 [secondary reference]
common name: Humped Leek 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: 32, 130 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Chiloterus gibbosus (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 388 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Chiloterus gibbosus (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2: 84 [secondary reference]
common name: Humped Leek Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Latin gibbous (pouched, humped, swollen), in reference to the base of the lateral sepals."