Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Habenaria maccraithii
Orchidaceae Juss.
Habenaria maccraithii Lavarack , legitimate, scientific
Lavarack, P.S. (May 1984), A new species of Habenaria from Cape York Peninsula. The Orchadian 7(12): 278-279 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Cook District: Cape York Peninsula, Brown Creek Near the crossing of the Portland Roads road. 12°15′S; 142°5′E, Sept 1983 AOF 58 (BRI, holotypus)."
  • Etymology: "This species has been named in honour of Gerald McCraith, Chairman of Directors of the Australian Orchid Foundation who has done much to facilitate the study of Australian Orchids."
Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 39 [secondary reference]
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 337-338 [secondary reference]
Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 41 [secondary reference]
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 86 [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: Qld
Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1: 200-201, Pl. 26 [secondary reference]
Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 309 [secondary reference]
Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3: 9 [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: 28, 88 [secondary reference]
Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (2018), Pecteilis Raf. (Orchideae): a molecular phylogenetic based determination of their status in Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Review 83(6): 51 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Habenaria macraithii Lavarack orth. var.
  • APC Dist.: Qld
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 604 [secondary reference]
common name: Whiskered Rein Orchid [n/a]