Rogers, R.S. (1915), Notes on certain species of Pterostylis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 28(1): 108, t. IX. [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Summit of Mt. Dandenong (C. French, jun.). Watts River, Healesville (C. French, jun., and E.E. Pescott). Fernshaw (C. French, jun.). Condah (F.M. Reader)."

Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales: 88 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A: 19, Fig. 1 [secondary reference]

common name: Alpine Greenhood [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 32 [secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 181 [secondary reference]

common name: Mountain Greenhood [n/a]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 119 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "`Victoria, Fernshaw', 27 Sep. 1912, C. French s.n. (lectotype AD! here designated, isolectotype AD!)."

Jones, D.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Pterostylis. Flora of New South Wales 4: 182, Fig, 113A-A2 [secondary reference]

common name: Alpine Greenhood [n/a]

Jones, D.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Pterostylis. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 815-816, Fig. 168j-m [secondary reference]

common name: Mountain Greenhood [n/a]

Bishop, A. (1996), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 1: 72, Plate 178 [secondary reference]

common name: Mountain Greenhood [n/a]

Jones, D.L. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (1 August 1998), A taxonomic review of Pterostylis R.Br. in Tasmania. Australian Orchid Research 3: 159 [secondary reference]

Bishop, A. (2000), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 2: 72, Plate 178 [secondary reference]

common name: Mountain Greenhood [n/a]

Jones, D.L., Clements, M.A. & Molloy, B.P.J. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (28 November 2002), A synopsis of the subtribe Pterostylidinae. Australian Orchid Research 4: 136 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003), Orchidaceae. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7: 25 [secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. (2008), Field Guide to the orchids of the Australian Capital Territory: 200-201 [secondary reference]

common name: Mountain Greenhood [n/a]

• Etymology: "alpine"

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: 37, 64, 75, 116 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Pterostylis sp. aff. alpina [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Pterostylis sp. aff. alpina [n/a]

• APC Dist.: NSW, ACT, Vic

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

misapplied to: Pterostylis scabrida Lindl. legitimate by Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A: 19, Fig. 1

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 514 [secondary reference]

common name: Mountain Greenhood [n/a]

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