Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Orchidaceae Juss.
Thelymitra spiralis ( Lindl.) F.Muell.
, legitimate , scientific
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1865) , Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(35) :
98
[comb. nov.]
basionym:
Macdonaldia spiralis Lindl.
legitimate
Nicholls, W.H. (1935) , The sun orchids of Australia. Orchidologia Zeylanica 2(4) :
156
[secondary reference]
George, A.S. (5 May 1971) , A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2) :
184, 195
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Macdonaldia spiralis Lindl.
legitimate
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984) , Orchids of South-West Australia :
42-43
[secondary reference]
common name:
Curly Locks
[n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2 :
56, 57
[secondary reference]
misapplication:
Thelymitra matthewsii Cheeseman
legitimate
by Green, J.W. (1981) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia : 25
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 2 :
843
[secondary reference]
common name:
Curly Locks
[n/a]
Jones, D.L. (1988) , Native Orchids of Australia :
303
[secondary reference]
common name:
Curly Locks
[n/a]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992) , Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 :
253
[secondary reference]
common name:
Curly-Locks
[n/a]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998) , Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised) :
253
[secondary reference]
common name:
Curly-Locks
[n/a]
Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000) , The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue :
92
[secondary reference]
common name:
Curlylocks
[n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Flora of the South West 1 :
389
[secondary reference]
common name:
Curly Locks
[n/a]
Western Australian Herbarium (2003) , FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2 :
-
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra matthewsii Cheeseman
legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005) , Australian Plant Census :
-
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra matthewsii Cheeseman
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra daltonii R.S.Rogers
legitimate
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008) , Orchids of Western Australia :
320
[secondary reference]
common name:
Curly-locks
[n/a]
Etymology:
"spiralled, alluding to the spirally twisted leaf"
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008) , Australian Plant Census :
-
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Macdonaldia spiralis Lindl.
legitimate
Jeanes, J.A. (27 July 2009) , Resolution of the Thelymitra variegata (Orchidaceae) complex of southern Australia and New Zealand. Muelleria 27(2) :
157-158, Figs 2, 10
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Macdonaldia spiralis Lindl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra spiralis var. scoulerae Nicholls
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra spiralis var. punctata Nicholls
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra spiralis var. pallida Nicholls
legitimate
pro parte taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra porphyrosticta F.Muell.
legitimate
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011) , Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3 :
302
[secondary reference]
common name:
Curly Locks
[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 spiralis Lindl.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Thelymitra spiralis ( Lindl.) F.Muell. var. spiralis
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra spiralis var. scoulerae Nicholls
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra spiralis var. punctata Nicholls
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra spiralis var. pallida Nicholls
legitimate
pro parte taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra porphyrosticta F.Muell.
legitimate
misapplication:
Thelymitra matthewsii Cheeseman
legitimate
by Green, J.W. (1981) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia : 25
Jones, D.L. (January 2021) , Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3 :
461-462
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Macdonaldia spiralis Lindl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra spiralis var. scoulerae Nicholls
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra spiralis var. punctata Nicholls
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra spiralis var. pallida Nicholls
legitimate
common name:
Curly Locks
[n/a]
Brown, A. (19 July 2022) , The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2 :
254
[secondary reference]
common name:
Curly-locks
[n/a]
Etymology:
"From the Latin spiralis (spiraled), in reference to the spirally twisted leaf."