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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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Common Mignonette Orchid

Common Mignonette Orchid

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, common

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales

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~ 200-201

[common name]

common name of:

Microtis unifolia (G.Forst.) Rchb.f.

legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Orchidaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

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830

[common name]

common name of:

Microtis unifolia (G.Forst.) Rchb.f.

legitimate

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2

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283

[common name]

common name of:

Microtis media R.Br. subsp. media

legitimate

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2

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283

[common name]

common name of:

Microtis media R.Br.

legitimate

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised)

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283

[common name]

common name of:

Microtis media R.Br. subsp. media

legitimate

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1

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375

[common name]

common name of:

Microtis media R.Br.

legitimate

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3

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339

[common name]

common name of:

Microtis media R.Br. subsp. media

legitimate

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2

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232

[common name]

common name of:

Microtis media R.Br. subsp. media

legitimate

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

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398

[common name]

common name of:

Microtis media R.Br.

legitimate

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

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48

[common name]

common name of:

Microtis media R.Br. subsp. media

legitimate