Orchidaceae Juss.
Thelymitra flexuosa Endl.
, legitimate, scientific
[Endlicher, S.F.L. in Endlicher, S.F.L. & Fenzl, E. (1839), Novarum Stirpium Decades 3]:
23
[tax. nov.]
-
Type:
"Crescit in Novae-Hollandiae austro-occidentalis colonia King-Georges-Sound. (Hügel.)"
[Lindley, J. (January 1840), The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants]:
385
[taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of:
Macdonaldia concolor Lindl.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
[Lindley, J. (1 January 1840), A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony]:
L
[taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of:
Macdonaldia concolor Lindl.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
[Endlicher, S.F.L. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1846), Orchideae. Plantae Preissianae 2(1)]:
4
[taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of:
Macdonaldia concolor Lindl.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
[Hooker, J.D. (3 May 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(6)]:
4
[taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of:
Thelymitra smithiana (Gunn ex Lindl.) Hook.f.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
[Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874]:
89
[secondary reference]
[Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants]:
112
[secondary reference]
[Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora]:
189, 190
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra smithiana (Gunn ex Lindl.) Hook.f.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
[Rogers, R.S. in Black, J.M. (1922), Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1]:
121
[secondary reference]
[Nicholls, W.H. (1935), The sun orchids of Australia. Orchidologia Zeylanica 2(4)]:
160
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
[Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1]:
216
[secondary reference]
[Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales]:
9-10
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Macdonaldia smithiana Gunn ex Lindl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra smithiana (Gunn ex Lindl.) Hook.f.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
[Eichler, Hj. in Black, J.M. (1965), Flora of South Australia]:
89
[secondary reference]
[George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2)]:
184, 194
[secondary reference]
-
Type:
"King George Sound, Huegel - holo.: W."
taxonomic synonym:
Macdonaldia smithiana Gunn ex Lindl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Macdonaldia concolor Lindl.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
[Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A]:
51, Fig. 5G
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun-orchid
[n/a]
[Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales]:
34
[secondary reference]
[Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984), Orchids of South-West Australia]:
16-17
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
[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]:
842
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
[Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia]:
294-295
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
[Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1]:
139
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Macdonaldia smithiana Gunn ex Lindl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Macdonaldia concolor Lindl.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra smithiana (Gunn ex Lindl.) Hook.f.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
[Bates, R.J. & Weber, J.Z. (7 December 1990), Orchids of South Australia]:
155-156 (map), Fig. 235, Plate 208
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted sun-orchid
[n/a]
[Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2]:
250
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
[Bernhardt, P. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Thelymitra. Flora of New South Wales 4]:
150-151
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
[Weber, J.Z. & Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Thelymitra. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2]:
849, 851, Fig. 179f
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun-orchid
[n/a]
[Szlachetko, D.L. (1995), Systema Orchidalium. Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica. Materialy Floristiczne i Geobotaniczne Suppl. 3]:
113
[basionym]
basionym of:
Macdonaldia flexuosa (Endl.) Szlach.
legitimate
[Bishop, A. (1996), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 1]:
22, Plate 40
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
[Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised)]:
250
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
[Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (1998), A taxonomic review of Thelymitra in Tasmania. Australian Orchid Research 3]:
186
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Macdonaldia smithiana Gunn ex Lindl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Macdonaldia concolor Lindl.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra smithiana (Gunn ex Lindl.) Hook.f.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
[Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (1999), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania Edn. 3]:
68
[secondary reference]
[Jones, D.L., Wapstra, H., Tonelli, P. & Harris, S. (1999), The Orchids of Tasmania]:
271
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
-
Etymology:
"sinuous, zigzagged (flower stem)"
[Bishop, A. (2000), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 2]:
22, Plate 40
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
[Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue]:
91
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
[Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1]:
389
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
[Western Australian Herbarium (2003), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2]:
-
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
[Jeanes, J.A. in Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003), Orchidaceae. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7]:
28
[secondary reference]
[Barker, W.R., Barker, R.M., Jessop, J. & Vonow, H. (ed.) (18 March 2005), Census of South Australian Vascular Plants 5th Edition. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens Supplement 1]:
202
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Macdonaldia smithiana Gunn ex Lindl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra smithiana (Gunn ex Lindl.) Hook.f.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
[Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia]:
318
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted sun orchid
[n/a]
-
Etymology:
"bending, curvy, alluding to the characteristically zig-zagged flower stem"
[Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3]:
299
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
-
Etymology:
"... and a characteristically zig-zagged flower stem. It is from this last feature that the species gains both it common and scientific names."
[de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island]:
103
[secondary reference]
[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]:
49, 101, 108, 119, 134
[secondary reference]
[Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census]:
-
APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Thelymitra flexusa F.Muell.
orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Macdonaldia flexuosa (Endl.) Szlach.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Macdonaldia smithiana Gunn ex Lindl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Macdonaldia concolor Lindl.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra concolor Hook.f.
nom. inval., pro syn.
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra smithiana (Gunn ex Lindl.) Hook.f.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
-
APC Dist.:
WA, SA, NSW, Vic, Tas
[Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3]:
450-451
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Macdonaldia smithiana Gunn ex Lindl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Macdonaldia concolor Lindl.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Thelymitra smithiana (Gunn ex Lindl.) Hook.f.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
[Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2]:
224
[secondary reference]
common name:
Twisted Sun Orchid
[n/a]
-
Etymology:
"From the Latin flexuosus (bending, curvy, zigzag), in reference to the distinctive zig-zagged flower stem."