Nicholls, W.H. (1950), Additions to the Orchidaceae of Australia I. The Victorian Naturalist 66(11): 214, f. E [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Bolgart, Western Australia (leg. Mrs. Rica Erickson, Sept. 27, 1949 – TYPE in National Herbarium, South Yarra)."

• Etymology: "I have named this Western Australian Caladenia after its discoverer, Mrs. Rica Erickson, of Bolgart, who is a very keen botanist and an artist of exceptional talent."

George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2): 170 [secondary reference]

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984), Orchids of South-West Australia: 90-91 [secondary reference]

common name: Prisoner Orchid [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 54 [secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 117 [secondary reference]

common name: Prisoner Orchid [n/a]

• Text: "This taxon is a natural hybrid between C. filifera and C. cairnsiana."

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 24 [secondary reference]

• Text: "A natural hybrid between Caladenia cairnsiana and one of the taxa within the denticulata group."

Hopper, S.D. & Brown, A.P. (21 September 2001), Contributions to Western Australian orchidology: 2. New taxa and circumscriptions in Caladenia. Nuytsia 14(1/2): 290-291, Fig. 73 (map) [secondary reference]

Hopper, S.D. & Brown, A.P. (29 April 2004), Robert Brown's Caladenia revisited, including a revision of its sister genera Cyanicula, Ericksonella and Pheladenia (Caladeniinae: Orchidaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 17(2): 208 [secondary reference]

• Comment: "Caladenia cairnsiana x C. filifera"

Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (September 2005), Miscellaneous nomenclature notes and changes in Australian, New Guinea and New Zealand Orchidaceae. The Orchadian 15(1): 36 [basionym]

basionym of: Jonesiopsis x ericksoniae (Nicholls) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate

Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 342 [secondary reference]

common name: Prisoner orchid [n/a]

• Etymology: "named for Rica Erickson, author of Orchids of the West"

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Caladenia ericksonae Beard orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Jonesiopsis x ericksoniae (Nicholls) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate

• APC Comment: A hybrid between Caladenia cairnsiana and C. filifera (fide D.L.Jones, Native Orchids Australia 117 (1988)), C. cairnsiana and one of the taxa within the C. denticulata group (fide M.A.Clements, Austral. Orchid Res. 1: 24 (1989)), or C. filifera and C. pachychila (fide S.D.Hopper & A.P.Brown, Nuytsia 14(1/2): 290-291 (2001)).
• APC Dist.: WA

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 189-190 [secondary reference]

common name: Prisoner Orchid [n/a]

Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2: 266 [secondary reference]

common name: Prisoner Orchid [n/a]

• Etymology: "Named in honour of Rica Erickson, author of Orchids of the West."

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