Jussieu, A.L. de (4 August 1789), Genera Plantarum: 64 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Orchis L.

Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2, Appendix III: 574 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 164-169 [secondary reference]

Rogers, R.S. in Black, J.M. (1922), Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 114-116 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 208-209 [secondary reference]

Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales: 177 pp. [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 455-457 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 110-136 [secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 158 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A: 1-5 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1238-1242, Fig. 11.10 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 194-206 [secondary reference]

common name: orchids [n/a]

George, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Orchidaceae ( not Pterostylis). Flora of Central Australia: 515 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 26 [secondary reference]

Dahlgren, R.M.T., Clifford, H.T. & Yeo, P.F. (1985), The Families of the Monocotyledons: 254-274, Figs. 119-126 [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: 807-809 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Orchidaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 358-362, Fig. 54 [secondary reference]

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Orchidaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1004-1005 [secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Orchidaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 740-743 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 498-499 [secondary reference]

Chase, M.W., Soltis, D.E., Soltis, P.S., Rudall, P.J., Fay, M.F., Hahn, W.H., Sullivan, S., Joseph, J., Molvray, M., Kores, P.J., Givnish, T.J., Sytsma, J.J. & Pires, J.C. in Wilson, K.L. & Morrison, D.A. (ed.) (2000), Higher-level systematics of the monocotyledons: An assessment of current knowledge and a new classification. Monocots: Systematics and Evolution: 15 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 341 [secondary reference]

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 416 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cypripediaceae Lindl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Apostasiaceae Lindl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Neuwiediaceae R.Dahlgren ex Reveal & Hoogland legitimate

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 78 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cypripediaceae Lindl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Apostasiaceae Lindl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Neottiaceae Horan. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Vanillaceae Lindl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Limodoraceae Horan. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ophrydaceae Vines legitimate taxonomic synonym: Liparidaceae Vines legitimate taxonomic synonym: Neuwiediaceae R.Dahlgren ex Reveal & Hoogland legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Orchideae Juss. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI, NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI, NI, ACT, Vic (native and naturalised), Tas, MI

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 606-608, 931 [secondary reference]

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 109 [secondary reference]

Soltis, D.E., Smith, S.A., Cellinese, N., Wurdack, K.J., Tank, D.C., Brockington, S.F., Refulio-Rodriguez, N.F., Walker, J.B., Moore, M.J., Carlswars, B.S., Bell, C.D., Latvis, M., Crawley, S., Black, C., Diouf, D., Xi, Z., Rushworth, C.A., Gitzendanner, M.A., Sytsma, K.J., Qui, Y., Hilu, K.W., Davis, C.C., Sanderson, M.J., Beaman, R.S., Olmstead, R.G., Judd, W.S., Donoghue, M.J. & Soltis, P.S. (1 April 2011), Angiosperm Phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa. American Journal of Botany 98(4): Fig. 2B [secondary reference]

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 31 (photo) [secondary reference]

common name: Orchid [n/a]

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

orthographic variant: Orchideae Juss. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI, NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI, NI, ACT, Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised), MI

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