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 elegantissima

Orchidaceae Juss.

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

Pterostylis elegantissima (D.L.Jones & C.J.French) D.L.Jones

, legitimate

, scientific

Jones, D.L. (2015), New combinations in the Pterostylidinae.

Australian Orchid Review

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63

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Oligochaetochilus elegantissimus D.L.Jones & C.J.French

legitimate

Text: "The following new combinations in the Pterostylidinae are necessary to allow for the different taxonomic views held at generic level within the subtribe!"

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

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38, 131

[secondary reference]

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (31 March 2016), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2015.

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5

[secondary reference]

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

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- APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Oligochaetochilus elegantissimus D.L.Jones & C.J.French

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pterostylis aff. rufa

[n/a]

taxonomic synonym:

Pterostylis sp. 'elegant'

[n/a]

taxonomic synonym:

Pterostylis sp. 'elegant'

[n/a]

taxonomic synonym:

Pterostylis sp. 'elegant'

[n/a]

APC Dist.: WA

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

:

572

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Oligochaetochilus elegantissimus D.L.Jones & C.J.French

legitimate

Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2

:

174

[secondary reference]

common name:

Elegant Rufous Greenhood

[n/a]

Etymology: "From the Latin elegantissimus (very elegant), in reference to the tall habit of the species."