Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Microtis oblonga
Orchidaceae Juss.
Microtis oblonga R.S.Rogers , legitimate, scientific
Rogers, R.S. (22 December 1923), Contributions to the Orchidaceous flora of Australia. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 339 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Victoria: Cravesville, A.B. Braine; Ringwood, E.E. Pescott and A.B. Braine; Healseville, Edith Coleman; Grampians, C.W. D'Alton."South Australia: Myponga, Rogers."
Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 218 [secondary reference]
Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales: 21-22 [secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 477 [secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 116 [secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A: 59 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Microtis rara R.Br. legitimate
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 30 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Microtis unifolia (G.Forst.) Rchb.f. legitimate
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): 77 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "A.B. Braine s.n. sub. R.S. Rogers 2206, Ringwood, Vict., 19.ix.1920 (AD, lecto.!, AD, iso.!)"
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): 77 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Microtis rara R.Br. legitimate
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 327 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Microtis rara R.Br. legitimate
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Orchidaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 380 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Microtis rara R.Br. legitimate
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 95 [secondary reference]
misapplication: Microtis porrifolia R.Br. ex Spreng. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. by Fitzgerald, R.D. (January 1884), Australian Orchids 2(1): [t. 10]
Bates, R.J. & Weber, J.Z. (7 December 1990), Orchids of South Australia: 99 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Microtis rara R.Br. legitimate
Rowe, R.R. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Microtis. Flora of New South Wales 4: 154 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Microtis rara R.Br. legitimate
Entwisle, T.J. & Bates, R.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Microtis. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 867 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Microtis rara R.Br. legitimate
Jeanes, J.A. in Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003), Orchidaceae. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7: 23 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Microtis rara R.Br. legitimate
Barker, W.R., Barker, R.M., Jessop, J. & Vonow, H. (ed.) (18 March 2005), Census of South Australian Vascular Plants 5th Edition. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens Supplement 1: 198 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Microtis rara R.Br. legitimate
Jones, D.L. (2008), Field Guide to the orchids of the Australian Capital Territory: 156-157 [secondary reference]
common name: Sweet Onion Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "oblong (labellum)"
de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 99 [secondary reference]
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, 64, 73, 96, 106, 114 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
misapplication: Microtis rara R.Br. legitimate by Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A: 59-60
  • APC Comment: Included in Microtis rara in SA and Qld.
  • APC Dist.: NSW, ACT, Tas
Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (2019), Notes on Australasian orchids 5: Paraprasophyllum, a new genus in Prasophyllinae (Diurideae). Australian Orchid Review 84(5): 30 [secondary reference]
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 398-399 [secondary reference]
common name: Oblong Onion Orchid [n/a]