Orchidaceae Juss.
Microtis alba R.Br.
, legitimate, scientific
[Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805]:
321
[tax. nov.]
[Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants]:
112
[secondary reference]
[Sargent, O.H. (1906), Orchids occurring in York. Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society 2(3)]:
11
[secondary reference]
[George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2)]:
184
[secondary reference]
-
Lectotype:
King George Sound, R. Brown, Dec. 1801 - holo.: BM, iso.: K.
[Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984), Orchids of South-West Australia]:
230-231
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
[Bates, R. (19 June 1984), The genus Microtis R.Br. (Orchidaceae): a taxonomic revision with notes on biology. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 7(1)]:
80-81
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Goadbyella gracilis R.S.Rogers
legitimate
[Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2]:
55, 56
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Goadbyella gracilis R.S.Rogers
legitimate
[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]:
829
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
[Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia]:
325-326
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
White Onion Orchid
[n/a]
[Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1]:
94
[secondary reference]
-
Lectotype:
"'King George Sound; Prope Oyster Harbour', Dec. 1801, R. Brown s.n. (lectotype specimen (a) BM! here designated, isolectotype BM! K!)."
taxonomic synonym:
Goadbyella gracilis R.S.Rogers
legitimate
[Bates, R.J. (21 September 1990), Notes on the genus Microtis (Orchidaceae) in Western Australia with the description of two new taxa. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 13]:
57
[secondary reference]
[Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2]:
281
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
[Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised)]:
281
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
[Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue]:
86
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
[Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1]:
373
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
[Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia]:
222
[secondary reference]
common name:
White mignonette orchid
[n/a]
-
Etymology:
"white, alluding to the white coloured flowers"
[Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3]:
337
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
[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]:
29, 130
[secondary reference]
[Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census]:
-
APC
[secondary reference]
misapplication:
Goadbyella gracilis R.S.Rogers
legitimate
by [Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis]: 23
[Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (2019), Notes on Australasian orchids 5: Paraprasophyllum, a new genus in Prasophyllinae (Diurideae). Australian Orchid Review 84(5)]:
29
[secondary reference]
[Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2]:
52
[secondary reference]
common name:
White Mignonette Orchid
[n/a]
-
Etymology:
"From the Latin albus (white), in reference to the white flowers."