Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
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You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Habenaria triplonema

Orchidaceae Juss.

Habenaria triplonema Schltr.

, legitimate

, scientific

Schlechter, F.R.R. (15 August 1911), Orchidaceae novae et criticae. Decas XXIII-XXIV.

Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis

:

435

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Nord-Australien: Bei Port Darwin. – M. Holtze no. 979, im Jahre. 1889."

Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids

:

46-47

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

58

[secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia

:

340

[secondary reference]

common name:

Rein Orchid

[n/a]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae.

Australian Orchid Research

:

86

[secondary reference]

Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1

:

218-219

[secondary reference]

Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia

:

392

[secondary reference]

common name:

Kimberley spider orchid

[n/a]

Etymology: "three threads, alluding to the three highly elongated labellum lobes"

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, 81, 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

:

51

[basionym]

basionym of:

Pecteilis triplonema (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Habenaria elongata R.Br. legitimate by

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia

: 24 misapplication: Habenaria elongata R.Br. legitimate by

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

: 55

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (10 December 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2019.

:

346

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pecteilis elongata (R.Br.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones

legitimate

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3

:

609

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Pecteilis triplonema (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pecteilis elongata (R.Br.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones

legitimate

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.

:

248

[secondary reference]

Type: "Northern Territory: Near Port Darwin, 1889, M.Holtze 979 (holo: B†; iso: MEL 108319)."

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.

:

248

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pecteilis elongata (R.Br.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones

legitimate