Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Thelymitra tigrina
Orchidaceae Juss.
Thelymitra tigrina R.Br. , legitimate, scientific
Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 315 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "(M.) v.v."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 112 [secondary reference]
Nicholls, W.H. (1935), The sun orchids of Australia. Orchidologia Zeylanica 2(4): 158-159 [secondary reference]
George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2): 196 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Type: "King George Sound, R. Brown, Dec. 1801 - holo.: BM."
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984), Orchids of South-West Australia: 22-23 [secondary reference]
common name: Tiger Orchid [n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 57 [secondary reference]
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: 844 [secondary reference]
common name: Tiger Orchid [n/a]
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 304-305 [secondary reference]
common name: Tiger Orchid [n/a]
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 143 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "`In paludsis ad Portum Regis Georgi III', Dec. 1801, R. Brown s.n. (lectotype specimen (a) BM! here designated, isolectotype BM! E!)."
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2: 248 [secondary reference]
common name: Tiger Orchid [n/a]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised): 248 [secondary reference]
common name: Tiger Orchid [n/a]
Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 92 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 388 [secondary reference]
common name: Tiger Orchid [n/a]
Western Australian Herbarium (2003), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2: - [secondary reference]
common name: Tiger Orchid [n/a]
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 316 [secondary reference]
common name: Tiger orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "tiger like, alluding to the floral colouration"
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3: 297 [secondary reference]
common name: Tiger 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]
  • APC Dist.: WA
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 452 [secondary reference]
common name: Tiger Sun Orchid [n/a]
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2: 260 [secondary reference]
common name: Tiger Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Latin tigrinus (tiger like), in reference to the flower colour."

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