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 simulans

Orchidaceae Juss.

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

Pterostylis simulans R.J.Bates

, legitimate

, scientific

Bates, R.J. (September 2014), Pterostylis simulans (Orchidaceae), a new boom or bust species of rusty hood from northern South Australia.

The Orchadian

:

38-42

[tax. nov.]

Type: South Australia, Northern Flinders Ranges, Angorichina Creek via Parachilna Gorge, 5th September 2013, R Bates 90739 (holo AD).

taxonomic synonym:

Oligochaetochilus sp. 'Long peduncles'

[n/a]

Etymology: "after the Latin simulans resembling or similar to others, suggesting its similarity to the much taller Pterostylis excelsa from the plains well south and west of the Flinders Ranges and the much more delicate P. cobarensis from eastern foothills of the main Ranges."

Bates, R.J. (2016), New combinations in the South Australia Orchidaceae.

Australian Orchid Review

:

63

[basionym]

basionym of:

Oligochaetochilus simulans (R.J.Bates) R.J.Bates

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

:

40, 99

[secondary reference]

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

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Oligochaetochilus simulans (R.J.Bates) R.J.Bates

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Oligochaetochilus sp. 'Long peduncles'

[n/a]

APC Dist.: SA

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

:

574

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Oligochaetochilus simulans (R.J.Bates) R.J.Bates

legitimate