Orchidaceae Juss.
Prasophyllum elatum R.Br.
, legitimate, scientific
[Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805]:
318
[tax. nov.]
[Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874]:
89
[secondary reference]
[Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants]:
112
[secondary reference]
[Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora]:
193
[secondary reference]
misapplication:
Prasophyllum australe R.Br.
legitimate
by [Hooker, J.D. (3 May 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(6)]: 10
[Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales]:
262
[secondary reference]
[Sargent, O.H. (1906), Orchids occurring in York. Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society 2(3)]:
11
[secondary reference]
[Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II]:
187, 190, Plate LX
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
[Rogers, R.S. in Black, J.M. (1922), Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1]:
125
[secondary reference]
[Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1]:
220
[secondary reference]
[Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales]:
26
[secondary reference]
misapplication:
Prasophyllum australe R.Br.
legitimate
by [Lindley, J. (September 1840), The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants]: 514
[Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains]:
474
[secondary reference]
[George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2)]:
187
[secondary reference]
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Type:
Port Jackson, N.S.W. Brown, Sept. - Oct. 1803 - holo.: BM, iso.: E, K.
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum macrotys Lindl.
legitimate
[Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A]:
67
[secondary reference]
[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]:
246, 254-255
[secondary reference]
common name:
Snake Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Piano Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
[Bates, R. (September 1984), Pollination of Prasophyllum elatum R.Br. (with notes on associated biology). The Orchadian 8(1)]:
14-17
[secondary reference]
[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]:
832-833
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
[Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia]:
252-253
[secondary reference]
common name:
Snake Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Piano Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
[Jones, D.L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Prasophyllum. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3]:
381
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Prasophyllum macrotys Lindl.
legitimate
common name:
Tall 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]
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Lectotype:
"`Port Jackson', Sep.–Oct. 1803, R. Brown s.n. (lectotype specimen (a) BM! here designated, isolectotype E! K! P!)."
[Bates, R.J. & Weber, J.Z. (7 December 1990), Orchids of South Australia]:
108 (map), Fig. 145, Plates 129-130
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall leek-orchid
[n/a]
[Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2]:
312
[secondary reference]
common name:
Snake Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Piano Orchid
[n/a]
[Bernhardt, P. & Rowe, R.R. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Prasophyllum. Flora of New South Wales 4]:
158
[secondary reference]
common name:
Piano Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
[Bates, R.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Prasophyllum. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2]:
871
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek-orchid
[n/a]
[Bishop, A. (1996), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 1]:
38, Plate 89
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
[Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised)]:
312
[secondary reference]
common name:
Snake Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Piano Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
[Jones, D.L. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (1 August 1998), A taxonomic review of Prasophyllum in Tasmania. Australian Orchid Research 3]:
104
[secondary reference]
[Jones, D.L., Wapstra, H., Tonelli, P. & Harris, S. (1999), The Orchids of Tasmania]:
190
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
-
Etymology:
"tall, stately"
[Bishop, A. (2000), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 2]:
38, Plate 89
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
[Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1]:
381-382
[secondary reference]
common name:
Snake Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Piano Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
[Jeanes, J.A. in Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003), Orchidaceae. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7]:
24
[secondary reference]
[Barker, W.R., Barker, R.M., Jessop, J. & Vonow, H. (ed.) (18 March 2005), Census of South Australian Vascular Plants 5th Edition. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens Supplement 1]:
198
[secondary reference]
[Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia]:
256
[secondary reference]
common name:
snake orchid
[n/a]
common name:
piano orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Tall leek orchid
[n/a]
-
Etymology:
"lofty, tall, alluding to the tall flower spikes"
[Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3]:
373
[secondary reference]
common name:
Snake Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Piano Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
[Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2]:
234-235, photos 13-16, 236
[secondary reference]
common name:
Piano Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
[de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island]:
100
[secondary reference]
[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, 73, 89, 97, 106, 115, 130
[secondary reference]
[Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census]:
-
APC
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Prasophyllum elatum R.Br. var. elatum
legitimate
-
APC Dist.:
WA, SA, Qld, NSW, 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]
[Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3]:
308
[secondary reference]
common name:
Piano Orchid
[n/a]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
[Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2]:
90
[secondary reference]
common name:
Tall Leek Orchid
[n/a]
-
Etymology:
"From the Latin elatus (lofty, tall), in reference to the tall plant height."