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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Showing Pterostylis metcalfei

Orchidaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Asparagales(ordo)
Orchidaceae(fam.)
Pterostylis(gen.)
metcalfei(sp.)

Pterostylis metcalfei D.L.Jones

, legitimate

, scientific

Jones, D.L. (December 1997), Six new species of Pterostylis R.Br. (Orchidaceae) from Australia.

The Orchadian

:

248-250, Fig. 4

[tax. nov.]

Type: "New South Wales: Northern Tablelands; Doughboy Mountain, c. 10 km S. of Wongwibindi, on the road to Wollomombi, 8 May 1994, P. Metcalfe (D.L. Jones 12996) (holo CANB; iso AD, MEL, NSW)."

Etymology: "Named after Peter Metcalfe, discoverer of the species and who has been studying the orchids of the Northern Tablelands for many years. Peter prepared the terrestrial orchids section of the Students Flora of North-eastern New South Wales (Metcalfe 1987)."

Bishop, A. (2000), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 2

:

109-110, Plate 268

[secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (28 November 2002), A new classification of Pterostylis R.Br. (Orchidaceae).

Australian Orchid Research

:

71

[basionym]

basionym of:

Diplodium metcalfei (D.L.Jones) 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

:

39, 75

[secondary reference]

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

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Pterostylis metcaffei J.J.Riley

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Diplodium metcalfei (D.L.Jones) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.

legitimate

APC Dist.: NSW

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

:

481

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Diplodium metcalfei (D.L.Jones) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.

legitimate