Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Rhizanthella gardneri
Orchidaceae Juss.
Rhizanthella gardneri R.S.Rogers , legitimate, scientific
Rogers, R.S. (1928), A new Genus of Australian Orchid. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 15: 1, pl. I, II. [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Western Australia. Corrigin, John Trott, 23.5.28; closely surrounding decayed stumps of Melaleuca uncinata, R. Br., on ploughed land, in symbiotic association with a fungus; Shackelton, J.H. Plant, June 1928. Goomalling, June 1928 (a small specimen)."
George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2): 192 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Type: "Corrigin, J. Trott, May 23, 1928—syn.: PERTH; Shackleton, J.H. Plant, June 1928—not seen; Goomalling June, 1928—syn.: PERTH."
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984), Orchids of South-West Australia: 328, 330-331 [secondary reference]
common name: Underground 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: 331-332 [secondary reference]
common name: Western Underground Orchid [n/a]
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 129 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "`Corrigin, 175 miles E. of Perth, Western Australia', 23 May 1928, J. Trott s.n. (lectotype AD!, isolectotype BM! PERTH!)"
  • APC Dist.: WA
Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 20, 76, 96, Fig. 211 [secondary reference]
common name: Underground Orchid [n/a]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2: 327 [secondary reference]
common name: Underground Orchid [n/a]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised): 327 [secondary reference]
common name: Underground Orchid [n/a]
Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3: 25 [secondary reference]
Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 90 [secondary reference]
common name: Underground Orchid [n/a]
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 302 [secondary reference]
common name: Western Australian underground orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "named for Charles Gardner, former Government Botanist of Western Australia"
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3: 388-389 [secondary reference]
common name: Underground 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: 47, 134 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA
Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (2019), Notes on Australasian orchids 5: Paraprasophyllum, a new genus in Prasophyllinae (Diurideae). Australian Orchid Review 84(5): 38 [secondary reference]
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 404 [secondary reference]
common name: Western Underground Orchid [n/a]
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2: 204 [secondary reference]
common name: Western Underground Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "Named in honour of Charles Gardner, assistant to the Economic Botanist and Plant Pathologist in the Department of Agriculture and later (1929) Government Botanist and Curator of the State Herbarium."