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 Microstylis biloba

Orchidaceae Juss.

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

Microstylis biloba Lindl.

, legitimate

, scientific

Lindley, J. (April 1830), The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants

:

20

[tax. nov.]

Hooker, J.D. (December 1888), Orchideae.

The Flora of British India

:

686

[basionym]

basionym of:

Microstylis wallichii var. biloba (Lindl.) Hook.f.

legitimate

Ames, O. in Merrill, E.D. (29 December 1924), Orchidaceae.

An Enumeration of Philippine Flowering Plants

:

302

[basionym]

basionym of:

Malaxis acuminata var. biloba (Lindl.) Ames

legitimate

Tuyama, T. (1966), The Flora of Eastern Himalaya

:

443

[basionym]

basionym of:

Malaxis acuminata f. biloba (Lindl.) Tuyama

legitimate

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

Australian Orchid Research

:

91

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Malaxis acuminata D.Don

legitimate

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

:

380

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Malaxis acuminata D.Don

legitimate

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

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Microstylis wallichii var. biloba (Lindl.) Hook.f.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Malaxis biloba (Lindl.) Ames

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Malaxis acuminata var. biloba (Lindl.) Ames

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Malaxis acuminata f. biloba (Lindl.) Tuyama

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Microstylis biloba Wall.

nom. inval., nom. nud.

APC Comment: Listed in synonymy of Malaxis acuminata D.Don by A.W.Dockrill, Austral. Indig. Orchids 2nd edn, 1: 380 (1993). Malaxis acuminata is now considered to have been misapplied to Crepidium fontinale D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. in Australia.