Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Thelymitra psammophila
Orchidaceae Juss.
Thelymitra psammophila C.R.P.Andrews , legitimate, scientific
Andrews, C.R.P. (1905), Two New Species of Orchideae from Western Australia. Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society 2(2): 57-58 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "I found this species in flower on sand plains near the Upper Kalgan River and Stirling Range in October, 1903."
Nicholls, W.H. (1935), The sun orchids of Australia. Orchidologia Zeylanica 2(4): 158 [secondary reference]
George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2): 195 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Type: "Near Upper Kalgan River and Stirling Range, Andrews, Oct. 1903 - holo.: PERTH, iso: PERTH, NSW."
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984), Orchids of South-West Australia: 18-19 [secondary reference]
common name: Sandplain Sun Orchid [n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 56 [secondary reference]
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 301-302 [secondary reference]
common name: Sandplain Sun Orchid [n/a]
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 142 [secondary reference]
Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 20, 78, Fig. 222 [secondary reference]
common name: Sandplain Sun Orchid [n/a]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2: 251 [secondary reference]
common name: Sandplain Sun Orchid [n/a]
Szlachetko, D.L. (1995), Systema Orchidalium. Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica. Materialy Floristiczne i Geobotaniczne Suppl. 3: 113 [basionym]
basionym of: Macdonaldia psammophila (C.R.P.Andrews) Szlach. legitimate
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised): 251 [secondary reference]
common name: Sandplain Sun Orchid [n/a]
Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3: 26 [secondary reference]
Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 91 [secondary reference]
common name: Sandplain Sun Orchid [n/a]
Western Australian Herbarium (2003), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2: - [secondary reference]
common name: Sandplain Sun Orchid [n/a]
  • APC Dist.: WA
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 318 [secondary reference]
common name: Sandplain sun orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "sandplain flower, alluding to the sandplain habitat of the species"
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3: 300 [secondary reference]
common name: Sandplain Sun Orchid [n/a]
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: 50, 134 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Macdonaldia psammophila (C.R.P.Andrews) Szlach. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 451 [secondary reference]
common name: Sandplain Sun Orchid [n/a]
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2: 224 [secondary reference]
common name: Sandplain Sun Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Greek psammos (sand) and phileo (loving), in reference to the sandplain habit of the species."