Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Fitzgerald, R.D. (March 1876), Australian Orchids 1(2): [7th plate] [tax. nov.]

• Type: "the only places I have yet received it from being, in the first instance, from Dr. Ross, Molong, and subsequently from Mr. Sheaffe, Boorowa."

• Etymology: "The form to which I have given the name of Cycnocephala, from the likeness of the appendage of the labellum to the head and neck of a swan, seems to belong to the country west of the Coast Range..."

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 257 [secondary reference]

Rogers, R.S. in Black, J.M. (1922), Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 153 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 247 [secondary reference]

Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales: 100-101 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 131, Fig 118C-C1 [secondary reference]

common name: Swan Greenhood [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A: 26-27, Fig. 2 [secondary reference]

common name: Swan Greenhood [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 32 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pterostylis mutica R.Br. legitimate

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 188-189 [secondary reference]

common name: Swan Greenhood [n/a]

Jones, D.L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Pterostylis. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 406 [secondary reference]

common name: Swan Greenhood [n/a]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 121 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "`Molong', Ross s.n. (lectotype BM! here designated)."

Hnatiuk, R.J. (ed.) (1990), Census of Australian Vascular Plants: 433 [secondary reference]

Bates, R.J. & Weber, J.Z. (7 December 1990), Orchids of South Australia: 129 (map), 135, Fig. 199, Plate 162 [secondary reference]

common name: Swan-headed green-hood [n/a]

Jones, D.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Pterostylis. Flora of New South Wales 4: 185 [secondary reference]

common name: Swan Greenhood [n/a]

Jones, D.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Pterostylis. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 823, Fig. 172a-d [secondary reference]

common name: Swan Greenhood [n/a]

Bishop, A. (1996), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 1: 76, Plate 187 [secondary reference]

common name: Swan Greenhood [n/a]

Jones, D.L. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (1 August 1998), A taxonomic review of Pterostylis R.Br. in Tasmania. Australian Orchid Research 3: 142-143 [secondary reference]

Jones, D.L., Wapstra, H., Tonelli, P. & Harris, S. (1999), The Orchids of Tasmania: 222 [secondary reference]

common name: Swan Greenhood [n/a]

• Etymology: "with head like swan (labellum appendage)"

Bishop, A. (2000), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 2: 76, Plate 187 [secondary reference]

common name: Swan Greenhood [n/a]

Szlachetko, D.L. (28 February 2001), Genera et species Orchidalium. 1. Polish Botanical Journal 46(1): 25 [basionym]

basionym of: Oligochaetochilus cycnocephalus (Fitzg.) Szlach. legitimate

Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (28 November 2002), A new classification of Pterostylis R.Br. (Orchidaceae). Australian Orchid Research 4: 74 [basionym]

basionym of: Hymenochilus cycnocephalus (Fitzg.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 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, 26 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hymenochilus cycnocephalus (Fitzg.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 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: 199 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Oligochaetochilus cycnocephalus (Fitzg.) Szlach. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Hymenochilus cycnocephalus (Fitzg.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Pterostylis ziegeleri D.L.Jones legitimate by Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A: 26-27, Fig. 2

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Pterostylis ziegeleri D.L.Jones legitimate by Jones, D.L., Wapstra, H., Tonelli, P. & Harris, S. (1999), The Orchids of Tasmania: 222

Jones, D.L. (2008), Field Guide to the orchids of the Australian Capital Territory: 278 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "head of a swan (labellum appendage)"

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: 38, 64, 75, 89, 98, 117 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Oligochaetochilus cycnocephala Szlach. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Oligochaetochilus cycnocephalus (Fitzg.) Szlach. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Hymenochilus cycnocephalus (Fitzg.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Hymenochilus sp. Slate (D.L.Jones 16267) [n/a]

• APC Comment: Treated as Hymenochilus cycnocephalus in the ACT.
• APC Dist.: SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Pterostylis ziegeleri D.L.Jones legitimate by Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A: 26-27, Fig. 2

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Pterostylis sinuata (D.L.Jones) Janes & Duretto legitimate by Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 121

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Pterostylis sinuata (D.L.Jones) Janes & Duretto legitimate by Hnatiuk, R.J. (ed.) (1990), Census of Australian Vascular Plants: 433

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 550 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Hymenochilus cycnocephalus (Fitzg.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate

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