Orchidaceae Juss.
Prasophyllum R.Br.
, legitimate, scientific
[Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805]:
317
[tax. nov.]
[Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants]:
112
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Genoplesium R.Br.
legitimate
[Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales]:
262-264
[secondary reference]
[Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants]:
537
[secondary reference]
[Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II]:
186-187
[secondary reference]
[Rogers, R.S. in Black, J.M. (1922), Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1]:
123-124
[secondary reference]
[Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1]:
218
[secondary reference]
-
Etymology:
"Greek prason, a leek; phyllon, a leaf"
[Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales]:
22-40, 143
[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]:
473
[secondary reference]
[Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids]:
85-87
[secondary reference]
[Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory]:
112-116
[secondary reference]
[George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2)]:
186
[secondary reference]
[Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1]:
159
[secondary reference]
[Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A]:
61-65
[secondary reference]
common name:
Leek orchids
[n/a]
[Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales]:
31
[secondary reference]
[Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984), Orchids of South-West Australia]:
247
[secondary reference]
common name:
Leek Orchids
[n/a]
[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]:
831-832
[secondary reference]
[Jones, D.L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Prasophyllum. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3]:
380-381
[secondary reference]
[Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1]:
109
[secondary reference]
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Type:
Prasophyllum australe R.Br.
taxonomic synonym:
Anticheirostylis Fitzg.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Corunastylis Fitzg.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Antichirostylis Kuntze
orth. var.
[Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (September 1989), Reinterpretation of the genus Genoplesium R.Br. (Orchidaceae: Prasophyllinae). Lindleyana 4(3)]:
140-141
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum sect. Integra G.Don
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum sect. Euprasophyllum Hook.f.
nom. inval.
[Bates, R.J. & Weber, J.Z. (7 December 1990), Orchids of South Australia]:
103-104, Fig. 6
[secondary reference]
common name:
Leek-Orchids
[n/a]
common name:
Midge-orchids
[n/a]
common name:
Leek-orchids
[n/a]
[Jones, D.L. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (5 April 1991), New taxa of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 2]:
75-82
[secondary reference]
[Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2]:
293
[secondary reference]
common name:
Leek Orchids
[n/a]
[Bernhardt, P. & Rowe, R.R. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Prasophyllum. Flora of New South Wales 4]:
155
[secondary reference]
common name:
Leek Orchids
[n/a]
[Bates, R.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Prasophyllum. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2]:
869-871
[secondary reference]
[Bishop, A. (1996), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 1]:
36
[secondary reference]
common name:
Leek Orchids
[n/a]
[Jones, D.L. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (1 August 1998), A taxonomic review of Prasophyllum in Tasmania. Australian Orchid Research 3]:
95
[secondary reference]
[Jones, D.L., Wapstra, H., Tonelli, P. & Harris, S. (1999), The Orchids of Tasmania]:
177-178
[secondary reference]
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Etymology:
"... the erect hollow leaf has some resemblance to that of a leek. This resemblance is also reflected in the generic name, which is derived from the Greek prason (leek) and phyllon (leaf)."
[Bishop, A. (2000), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 2]:
36
[secondary reference]
common name:
Leek Orchids
[n/a]
[Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1]:
377
[secondary reference]
[Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (September 2005), Miscellaneous nomenclature notes and changes in Australian, New Guinea and New Zealand Orchidaceae. The Orchadian 15(1)]:
41
[secondary reference]
[Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia]:
247
[secondary reference]
common name:
Leek orchids
[n/a]
-
Etymology:
"leek leaf, alluding to the leek-like leaves found in all species"
[Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census]:
-
[secondary reference]
[Jones, D.L. (2008), Field Guide to the orchids of the Australian Capital Territory]:
280
[secondary reference]
-
Etymology:
"from the Greek prason, leek and phyllon leaf; reference to the hollow, terete leaves that resemble those of an onion or leek"
[Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3]:
698
[secondary reference]
[Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3]:
353
[secondary reference]
common name:
Leek Orchids
[n/a]
[Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census]:
-
APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Prosophyllum Dockrill
orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Prasophyllum R.Br. sect. Prasophyllum
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum sect. Euprasophyllum Hook.f.
nom. inval.
taxonomic synonym:
Mecopodum D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Chiloterus D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.
legitimate
-
APC Dist.:
WA, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas
[Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (2019), Notes on Australasian orchids 5: Paraprasophyllum, a new genus in Prasophyllinae (Diurideae). Australian Orchid Review 84(5)]:
30
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum sect. Integra G.Don
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum sect. Euprasophyllum Hook.f.
nom. inval.
[Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3]:
304-305
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchids
[n/a]
[Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2]:
78
[secondary reference]
common name:
Leek Orchids
[n/a]
-
Etymology:
"From the Greek prason (leek) and -phyllon (leaf), in reference to the leek-like leaves found in all species."