Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Thelymitra media
Orchidaceae Juss.
Thelymitra media R.Br. , legitimate, scientific
Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 314 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "(J.) v.v."
Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 318, in obs. BHL [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 258 [secondary reference]
Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 181, 242 [secondary reference]
Nicholls, W.H. (1935), The sun orchids of Australia. Orchidologia Zeylanica 2(4): 155, fig. [secondary reference]
common name: Tall Sun Orchid [n/a]
Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales: 6 [secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 472 [secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A: 46, Fig. 5L [secondary reference]
common name: Tall Sun-orchid [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 34 [secondary reference]
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 299-300 [secondary reference]
common name: Tall Sun Orchid [n/a]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Orchidaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 391 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra media var. carneolutea Nicholls legitimate common name: Tall Sun Orchid [n/a]
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 141 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "`Port Jackson; Parramatta', Nov. 1803, R. Brown s.n. (lectotype specimen (a) BM! here designated, isolectotype BM!)."
Weber, J.Z. & Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Thelymitra. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 844-845, Fig. 178g [secondary reference]
common name: Tall Sun-orchid [n/a]
Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (1998), A taxonomic review of Thelymitra in Tasmania. Australian Orchid Research 3: 199 [secondary reference]
Bostock, P.D. & Harris, W.K. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Orchidaceae. Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens: 141 [secondary reference]
Jeanes, J.A. in Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003), Orchidaceae. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7: 28 [secondary reference]
Backhouse, G., Kosky, B., Rouse, D. & Turner, J. (2016), Bush Gems: A Guide to the Wild Orchids of Victoria, Australia: [p. 753 & 756 (photo), pp. 783-784 (photos, map) of PDF] [secondary reference]
common name: Tall Sun-orchid [n/a]
Backhouse, G., Kosky, B., Rouse, D. & Turner, J. (2016), Bush Gems: A Guide to the Wild Orchids of Victoria, Australia: [p. 785 of PDF] [pro parte taxonomic synonym]
pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Thelymitra improcera D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate
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: 49, 78, 119 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Thelymitra media R.Br. var. media legitimate taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra canaliculata var. media M.A.Clem. nom. inval., pro syn.
  • APC Comment: Treated as Thelymitra media var. media in Qld.
  • APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, Vic
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]
pro parte misapplied to: Thelymitra longiloba D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate by Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A: 46, Fig. 5L
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]
pro parte misapplied to: Thelymitra improcera D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate by Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A: 46, Fig. 5L
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 446 [secondary reference]
common name: Tall Sun Orchid [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Thelymitra media R.Br. var. media legitimate taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra canaliculata var. media M.A.Clem. nom. inval., pro syn.
  • APC Dist.: NSW, Vic
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]
misapplied to: Thelymitra ixioides Sw. legitimate by Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Orchidaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 391
[misapplied]
misapplied to: Thelymitra ixioides Sw. legitimate by Bostock, P.D. & Harris, W.K. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Orchidaceae. Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens: 141

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