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.
Microtis alba R.Br.
, legitimate , scientific
Brown, R. (27 March 1810) , Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805 :
321
[tax. nov.]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants :
112
[secondary reference]
Sargent, O.H. (1906) , Orchids occurring in York. Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society 2(3) :
11
[secondary reference]
George, A.S. (5 May 1971) , A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2) :
184
[secondary reference]
Lectotype:
King George Sound, R. Brown , Dec. 1801 - holo.: BM, iso.: K.
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984) , Orchids of South-West Australia :
230-231
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
Bates, R. (19 June 1984) , The genus Microtis R.Br. (Orchidaceae): a taxonomic revision with notes on biology. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 7(1) :
80-81
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Goadbyella gracilis R.S.Rogers
legitimate
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2 :
55, 56
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Goadbyella gracilis R.S.Rogers
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 2 :
829
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
Jones, D.L. (1988) , Native Orchids of Australia :
325-326
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
White Onion Orchid
[n/a]
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989) , Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1 :
94
[secondary reference]
Lectotype:
"'King George Sound; Prope Oyster Harbour', Dec. 1801, R. Brown s.n. (lectotype specimen (a) BM! here designated, isolectotype BM! K!)."
taxonomic synonym:
Goadbyella gracilis R.S.Rogers
legitimate
Bates, R.J. (21 September 1990) , Notes on the genus Microtis (Orchidaceae) in Western Australia with the description of two new taxa. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 13 :
57
[secondary reference]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992) , Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 :
281
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998) , Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised) :
281
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000) , The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue :
86
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Flora of the South West 1 :
373
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008) , Orchids of Western Australia :
222
[secondary reference]
common name:
White mignonette orchid
[n/a]
Etymology:
"white, alluding to the white coloured flowers"
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011) , Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3 :
337
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette 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 :
29, 130
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
misapplication:
Goadbyella gracilis R.S.Rogers
legitimate
by Gardner, C.A. (1930) , Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis : 23
Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (2019) , Notes on Australasian orchids 5: Paraprasophyllum, a new genus in Prasophyllinae (Diurideae). Australian Orchid Review 84(5) :
29
[secondary reference]
Brown, A. (19 July 2022) , The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2 :
52
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
Etymology:
"From the Latin albus (white), in reference to the white flowers."