Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Prasophyllum macrostachyum
Orchidaceae Juss.
Prasophyllum macrostachyum 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]
Sargent, O.H. (1906), Orchids occurring in York. Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society 2(3): 11 [secondary reference]
George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2): 188 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Type: "King George Sound, Brown, Dec. 1801 - holo.: BM, iso.: K."
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 56 [secondary reference]
Weber, J.Z. & Bates, R. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 2107 [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: 834-835 [secondary reference]
common name: Laughing Leek Orchid [n/a]
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 258 [secondary reference]
common name: Laughing Leek Orchid [n/a]
Bates, R. (20 July 1989), Prasophyllum calcicola, P. macrostachyum and P. ringens (Orchidaceae): three similar species from Western and southern Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 11(2): 185, 187, Fig. 3 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "R. Brown s.n., King George Sound, Dec. 1801: (Lecto.: BM!; Syn.: BM, K!)."
taxonomic synonym: Prasophyllum gracile Lindl. legitimate misapplication: Prasophyllum nigricans R.Br. legitimate by Endlicher, S.F.L. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1846), Orchideae. Plantae Preissianae 2(1): 12
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 114 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "'In paludobus ad portum regis Georgii III'. [King George Sound], Dec. 1801, R. Brown s.n. (lectotype specimen (a) BM! here designated)."
taxonomic synonym: Prasophyllum gracile Lindl. legitimate
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2: 296 [secondary reference]
common name: Laughing Leek Orchid [n/a]
Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (25 January 1996), A reassessment of Prasophyllum gracile and P. macrostachyum (Orchidaceae), with the description of P. paulinae, a new species from south-west Western Australia. Nuytsia 10(3): 413-414, Fig. 2 BHL [secondary reference]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised): 296 [secondary reference]
common name: Laughing Leek Orchid [n/a]
Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 88 [secondary reference]
common name: Laughing Leek Orchid [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 379 [secondary reference]
common name: Laughing Leek Orchid [n/a]
Barker, W.R., Barker, R.M., Jessop, J. & Vonow, H. (ed.) (18 March 2005), Census of South Australian Vascular Plants 5th Edition. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens Supplement 1: 198 [misapplied]
misapplied to: Prasophyllum calcicola R.J.Bates legitimate by Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 318
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 250 [secondary reference]
common name: Laughing leek orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "large spike, alluding to the tall slender flower spikes"
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3: 356 [secondary reference]
common name: Laughing 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, 131 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Prasophyllum macrostachyum R.Br. var. macrostachyum legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]
misapplied to: Prasophyllum calcicola R.J.Bates legitimate by Weber, J.Z. & Bates, R. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 2107
Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (2019), Notes on Australasian orchids 5: Paraprasophyllum, a new genus in Prasophyllinae (Diurideae). Australian Orchid Review 84(5): 32 [basionym]
basionym of: Paraprasophyllum macrostachyum (R.Br.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 357 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Paraprasophyllum macrostachyum (R.Br.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2: 104 [secondary reference]
common name: Laughing Leek Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Greek macros (large, long) and -stachys (an ear of corn, flower spike), in reference to the elongated flower spike."
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Prasophyllum macrostachyum R.Br. var. macrostachyum legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Paraprasophyllum macrostachyum (R.Br.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]
misapplied to: Prasophyllum calcicola R.J.Bates legitimate by Weber, J.Z. & Bates, R. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 2107
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