Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Prasophyllum brownii
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 BHL [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
  • APC Dist.: WA
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."