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.]
  • Type: "(M.) v.v."
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 BHL [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
  • APC Dist.: WA
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."