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 Dendrobium rigidum

Orchidaceae Juss.

Dendrobium rigidum R.Br.

, legitimate

, scientific

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

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333

[tax. nov.]

Type: "(T.) B. v. descr. et ic. pict."

Comment: Base name for Callista rigida (R.Br.) Kuntze.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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110

[secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2

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655

[basionym]

basionym of:

Callista rigida (R.Br.) Kuntze

legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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526

[secondary reference]

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

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372-373, Pl. 9

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Callista rigida (R.Br.) Kuntze

legitimate

Rauschert, S. (1983), Beitrag zur Nomenklatur der Orchidaceae.

Feddes Repertorium Beiheft

:

447

[basionym]

basionym of:

Dockrillia rigida (R.Br.) Rauschert

legitimate

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

:

474-475

[secondary reference]

Upton, W.T. (1989), Dendrobium Orchids of Australia

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102-103, Fig. 59, Pl. 59

[secondary reference]

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

Australian Orchid Research

:

60

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Callista rigida (R.Br.) Kuntze

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Dockrillia rigida (R.Br.) Rauschert

legitimate

Dockrill, A.W. (1994), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 2

:

662-664, Pl. 92

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Callista rigida (R.Br.) Kuntze

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Dockrillia rigida (R.Br.) Rauschert

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Dendrobium desmotrichoides J.J.Sm.

legitimate

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

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309

[secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4

:

148

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Dockrillia rigida (R.Br.) Rauschert

legitimate

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

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22, 86

[secondary reference]

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Dockrillia rigida (R.Br.) Rauschert

legitimate

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

:

666

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Dockrillia rigida (R.Br.) Rauschert

legitimate