Mueller, F.J.H. von (1892), Descriptions of new Australian plants, with occasional other annotations. The Victorian Naturalist 9(6): 93 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Near St. Vincent-Gulf; F. v. M. (1848). Cardinia-Creek; Ch. French. Southern Tasmania; Gulliver. On King's Island and Swan-Island; J. M‘Kibbin Esq. Near Brighton-Bluff; Thos. S. Hart, Esq., M.A."

• Etymology: (not specified.) [but presumably named for the collector of part of the original material, John N.McKibbin (1828?–1900)]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1892), Neue Litteratur: Descriptions of New Australian plants, with occasional other annotations. [Continued]. Botanisches Centralblatt 52(10): 347 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. (July 1895), A supplement to a census of the flora of extra-tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 19: 82 [secondary reference]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 121 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pterostylis cucullata R.Br. legitimate

Jones, D.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Pterostylis. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 819 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pterostylis cucullata R.Br. legitimate

Jones, D.L. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (1 August 1998), A taxonomic review of Pterostylis R.Br. in Tasmania. Australian Orchid Research 3: 142 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pterostylis cucullata R.Br. legitimate

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]

• Lectotype: Tasmania. On King's Island and Swan Island, Nov. 1888, J. MacKibbin s.n. (lecto MEL, here designated: isolecto K, NSW).

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pterostylis cucullata R.Br. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Pterostylis cucullata R.Br. legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Pterostylis mackibbini F.Muell. orth. var.

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

taxonomic synonym of: Pterostylis cucullata R.Br. legitimate

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 516 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pterostylis cucullata R.Br. subsp. cucullata legitimate

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