Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

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.

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Showing Microtis media

Orchidaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Asparagales(ordo)
Orchidaceae(fam.)
Microtis(gen.)
media(sp.)

Microtis media 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.]

Type: (M.) v.v.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony.

Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly

:

18

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1865), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(35)

:

97

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Microtis viridis F.Muell.

nom. illeg.

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

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11

[secondary reference]

George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia.

:

185

BHL

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: King George Sound, Brown, Dec. 1801 - holo.: BM, iso.: BM.

Bates, R. (19 June 1984), The genus Microtis R.Br. (Orchidaceae): a taxonomic revision with notes on biology.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

:

69

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Microtis unifolia (G.Forst.) Rchb.f.

legitimate

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae.

Australian Orchid Research

:

95

[secondary reference]

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

:

51

[secondary reference]

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2

:

283

[secondary reference]

common name:

Common Mignonette Orchid

[n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1

:

375

[secondary reference]

common name:

Tall Mignonette Orchid

[n/a]

common name:

Common Mignonette Orchid

[n/a]

Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia

:

224

[secondary reference]

common name:

Mignonette orchid

[n/a]

Etymology: "intermediate, alluding to the intermediate floral structure"

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3

:

334

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Microtis unifolia (G.Forst.) Rchb.f. legitimate by

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia

: 24 misapplication: Microtis unifolia (G.Forst.) Rchb.f. legitimate by

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

: 56

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

:

30

[secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3

:

398

[secondary reference]

common name:

Common Mignonette Orchid

[n/a]