Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Prasophyllum gracillimum
Orchidaceae Juss.
Prasophyllum gracillimum Nicholls , legitimate, scientific
Nicholls, W.H. (1948), Additions to the Orchidaceae of Western Australia - II. Three new species of the genus Prasophyllum R.Br. The Victorian Naturalist 64(9): 175, & fig. [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Yarloop (HOLO-TYPE) - leg. Mrs. E. Scouler, Oct., 1944... The Type specimens of these three new species have all been lodged in the National Herbarium, Melbourne."
George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2): 187 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Type: "Yarloop, Mrs E. Scouler, Oct. 1944-holo.: MEL, iso.: PERTH."
George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2): 187 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Prasophyllum fimbria Rchb.f. legitimate
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: 833 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Prasophyllum fimbria Rchb.f. legitimate
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 113 [secondary reference]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2: 310 [secondary reference]
common name: Slender Leek Orchid [n/a]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised): 310 [secondary reference]
common name: Slender Leek Orchid [n/a]
Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 88 [secondary reference]
common name: Slender Leek Orchid [n/a]
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 256 [secondary reference]
common name: Slender leek orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "slender, alluding to the slender flower spikes"
Gibson, N. (1 July 2016), Western Australian plant taxa not collected for more than 50 years. Nuytsia 27: 153, 155 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "Candidate taxa for listing as Presumed Extinct"
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA (presumed extinct)
Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (2019), Notes on Australasian orchids 5: Paraprasophyllum, a new genus in Prasophyllinae (Diurideae). Australian Orchid Review 84(5): 31 [secondary reference]
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 306 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Prasophyllum fimbria Rchb.f. legitimate