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 Cymbidium reflexum

Orchidaceae Juss.

Cymbidium reflexum 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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331

[tax. nov.]

Type: "(J.) v.v."

Lindley, J. (1825), The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment 11

:

882

[basionym]

basionym of:

Liparis reflexa (R.Br.) Lindl.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1860), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(12)

:

72

[basionym]

basionym of:

Sturmia reflexa (R.Br.) F.Muell.

legitimate

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

:

671

[basionym]

basionym of:

Leptorkis reflexa (R.Br.) Kuntze

legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

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539

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Liparis reflexa (R.Br.) Lindl.

legitimate

Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales

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107

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Liparis reflexa (R.Br.) Lindl.

legitimate

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

:

278

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Liparis reflexa (R.Br.) Lindl.

legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

30

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Liparis reflexa (R.Br.) Lindl.

legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Orchidaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

373

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Liparis reflexa (R.Br.) Lindl.

legitimate

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

Australian Orchid Research

:

89

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "`Rocks, Port Jackson', 1802–4, R. Brown s.n. (lectotype specimen (a) BM! here designated, isolectotype BM, K, MEL!)."

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

Australian Orchid Research

:

89

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Liparis reflexa (R.Br.) Lindl.

legitimate

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

:

362

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Liparis reflexa (R.Br.) Lindl.

legitimate

Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (September 2005), Miscellaneous nomenclature notes and changes in Australian, New Guinea and New Zealand Orchidaceae.

The Orchadian

:

38

[basionym]

basionym of:

Cestichis reflexa (R.Br.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones

legitimate

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

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Liparis reflexa (R.Br.) Lindl.

legitimate

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

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751

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cestichis reflexa (R.Br.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones

legitimate