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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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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Showing Ephippium ciliatum

Orchidaceae Juss.

Ephippium ciliatum Blume

, legitimate

, scientific

Blume, C.(K.)L. von (1825), Bijdragen tot de Flora van Nederlandsch Indie 7

:

309

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Crescit : in sylvis altioribus montis Salak."

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

:

59

BHL

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Cirrhopetalum blumei Lindl.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Reichenbach, H.G.L. in Walpers, W.G. (1861), Annales Botanices Systematicae 6(2)

:

264

BHL

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Bulbophyllum cuspidilingue Rchb.f.

legitimate

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2

:

676

BHL

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Phyllorkis blumei Kuntze

legitimate

Smith, J.J. (1905), Die Orchideen von Java

:

459

BHL

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Bulbophyllum blumei (Kuntze) J.J.Sm.

legitimate

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

Australian Orchid Research

:

14

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Bulbophyllum blumei (Kuntze) J.J.Sm.

legitimate

Dockrill, A.W. (1994), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 2

:

798

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Bulbophyllum blumei (Kuntze) J.J.Sm.

legitimate

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

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Bulbophyllum maxillare (Lindl.) Rchb.f.

legitimate

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

:

702

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Bulbophyllum blumei (Kuntze) J.J.Sm.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Bulbophyllum masdevalliaceum Kraenzl.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ephippium masdevalliaceum (Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones

legitimate

common name:

Red Horntail Orchid

[n/a]