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 Oberonia attenuata

Orchidaceae Juss.

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

Oberonia attenuata Dockrill

, legitimate

, scientific

Dockrill, A.W. (22 December 1960), A new species of Oberonia (Orchidaceae) from north Queensland.

The North Queensland Naturalist

:

4-5

[tax. nov.]

Type: "North Queensland, Mossman River 12–6–1960, Leg. A.W. Dockrill. Holotype: Bot. Mus. Brisbane."

Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids

:

292-293

[secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1

:

39

[secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia

:

604

[secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2

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42

[secondary reference]

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

Australian Orchid Research

:

98

[secondary reference]

Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1

:

394-395

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

:

309

[secondary reference]

Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3

:

29

[secondary reference]

Field, A.R. & Zich, F.A. (21 December 2012), Types of enigmatic north-Queensland Orchids from the Dockrill herbarium.

Austrobaileya

:

698

[secondary reference]

Type: Queensland. Cook District: Mossman River, 12 June 1960, A.W.Dockrill s.n. (holo: BRI[AQ279632]; iso: CNS 137338)."

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

:

30, 88

[secondary reference]

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2017), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2016 census to 2017 census.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2017

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23

[secondary reference]

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: Qld

Geiger, D.L. (2019), Studies on Oberonia 5 (Orchidaceae: Malaxideae). Twenty-four new synonyms, and a corrected spelling.

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129

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Oberonia insectifera Hook.f.

legitimate

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

:

752-753

[secondary reference]

common name:

Mossman Fairy Orchid

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Oberonia insectifera Hook.f. legitimate by

Geiger, D.L. (2019), Studies on Oberonia 5 (Orchidaceae: Malaxideae). Twenty-four new synonyms, and a corrected spelling.

Blumea

64

: 129-130, Fig. 6

APC Dist.: Qld

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