Orchidaceae Juss.
Prasophyllum cyphochilum Benth. , legitimate, scientific
Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 340 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: W. Australia. Darling range, Collie; Swan river, Oldfield; King George's Sound and adjoining districts, Oldfield, F. Mueller, Muir.
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): 186 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: Upper Kalgan, Oldfield 593 - lecto.: K, iso.: MEL; Porongurup, F. Mueller, Oct. 1867 - syn.: MEL.
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984), Orchids of South-West Australia: 278-279 [secondary reference]
common name: Pouched Leek Orchid [n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 56 [secondary reference]
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: 832 [secondary reference]
common name: Pouched Leek Orchid [n/a]
Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 251 [secondary reference]
common name: Pouched Leek Orchid [n/a]
Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 112 [secondary reference]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2: 300 [secondary reference]
common name: Pouched Leek Orchid [n/a]
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised): 300 [secondary reference]
common name: Pouched Leek Orchid [n/a]
Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 87 [secondary reference]
common name: Pouched Leek Orchid [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 379 [secondary reference]
common name: Pouched Leek Orchid [n/a]
Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 248 [secondary reference]
common name: Pouched leek orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "bent lip, alluding to the prominently recurved labellum"
Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3: 361 [secondary reference]
common name: Pouched Leek 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: 32, 130 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • 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): 32 [basionym]
basionym of: Paraprasophyllum cyphochilum (Benth.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 354 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Paraprasophyllum cyphochilum (Benth.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2: 108 [secondary reference]
common name: Pouched Leek Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Greek cyphos (bent or stooping) and -cheilos (lip, birds bill), in reference to the prominently humped base of the labellum."