Orchidaceae Juss.
Corunastylis fuscoviridis (Reader) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. , legitimate, scientific
Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (2018), Newly recognised and reinstated species of Corunastylis Fitzg. (Orchidaceae: Prasophyllinae), with a proposed infrageneric classification of the genus. Australian Orchid Review 83(1): 53-54 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Prasophyllum fuscoviride Reader legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Genoplesium nigricans (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate
Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (2019), Notes on Australasian orchids 5: Paraprasophyllum, a new genus in Prasophyllinae (Diurideae). Australian Orchid Review 84(5): 27 [secondary reference]
Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (28 March 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2018. Nuytsia 30: 9 [secondary reference]
misapplication: Corunastylis tepperi (F.Muell. ex Tepper) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 382-383 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Prasophyllum fuscoviride Reader legitimate taxonomic synonym: Prasophyllum tepperi F.Muell. ex Tepper legitimate taxonomic synonym: Prasophyllum horburyanum Rupp legitimate common name: Mallee Midge Orchid [n/a]
  • Comment: Jones refers to Prasophyllum tepperi having been "illegally named by Baron von Mueller... in 1878" but no publication matching these details has been traced.
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Prasophyllum fuscoviride Reader legitimate misapplication: Corunastylis tepperi (F.Muell. ex Tepper) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate by Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 124 misapplication: Corunastylis tepperi (F.Muell. ex Tepper) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate by Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3: 352
  • APC Comment: Included in the circumscription of Corunastylis nigricans (as Genoplesium nigricans) in SA and in the circumscription of Corunastylis tepperi in Vic.
  • APC Dist.: WA
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 1: 212 [secondary reference]
common name: Pygmy Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Latin fuscus (dark, swarthy, dusky) and -viridis (green) referring to the flower colour