Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Orchidaceae Juss.
Prasophyllum brownii Rchb.f.
, legitimate , scientific
Reichenbach, H.G. (1871) , Die Orchideen des Prodromus R. Browns. Beitrage zur Systematischen Pflanzenkunde :
16
[tax. nov.]
Type:
"Ad portum Regis Georgii III. in palud. Decb. 1801. R.Br.!"
George, A.S. (5 May 1971) , A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2) :
186, 187
[secondary reference]
Lectotype:
ad portum Regis Georgii III in palud., R. Brown , Dec. 1810 - There is no specimen in the Reichenbach collection at W, but one at BM has the above locality in Brown's hand and agrees with the description. It is here chosen as lectotype.
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum ellipticum R.S.Rogers
legitimate
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984) , Orchids of South-West Australia :
248-249
[secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2 :
56
[secondary reference]
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987) , Orchidaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2 :
832
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum ellipticum R.S.Rogers
legitimate
Jones, D.L. (1988) , Native Orchids of Australia :
250
[secondary reference]
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989) , Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1 :
111
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum ellipticum R.S.Rogers
legitimate
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992) , Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 :
315
[secondary reference]
common name:
Christmas Leek Orchid
[n/a]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998) , Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised) :
315
[secondary reference]
common name:
Christmas Leek Orchid
[n/a]
Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000) , The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue :
87
[secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Flora of the South West 1 :
381
[secondary reference]
common name:
Christmas Leek Orchid
[n/a]
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008) , Orchids of Western Australia :
258
[secondary reference]
common name:
Christmas leek orchid
[n/a]
Etymology:
"named for Robert Brown who was the first to collect the species"
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011) , Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3 :
376
[secondary reference]
common name:
Christmas Leek Orchid
[n/a]
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 :
31, 130
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum laufferianum Maury
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum ellipticum R.S.Rogers
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum ellipticum R.S.Rogers
isonym
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 :
306
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum ellipticum R.S.Rogers
isonym
common name:
Christmas Leek Orchid
[n/a]
Brown, A. (19 July 2022) , The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2 :
90
[secondary reference]
common name:
Christmas Leek Orchid
[n/a]
Etymology:
"Named in honour of the famous Naturalist Robert Brown, a member of the Flinders expedition to Australia during which he collected the type specimen of this species."