Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 324 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(D.) D. Paterson. v.s." [given by A.S.George, Nuytsia 1 (1971) 170 as "Port Dalrymple, Tas., Paterson – holo.: BM."].

Lindley, J. (March 1840), The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants: 421 [secondary reference]

Reichenbach, H.G. (1871), Bemerkungen fur eine australische orchideenkunde. Beitrage zur Systematischen Pflanzenkunde: 66 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Caladenia patersonii var. lindleyana Rchb.f. legitimate by Lindley, J. (March 1840), The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants: 421

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 204 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 260 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 208, 209-210, Plate LXVI, 238 [secondary reference]

common name: Spider Orchid [n/a]

Rogers, R.S. in Black, J.M. (1922), Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 138 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Thread-like, referring to the perianth-segments."

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 24 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 232 [secondary reference]

Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales: 61-63, Pl. 9 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Caladenia filifera Lindl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Caladenia denticulata Lindl. legitimate

Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales: 60 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Caladenia dilatata R.Br. legitimate by Lindley, J. (March 1840), The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants: 421

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 464 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 120 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. & Foote, H.E. (1971), Orchids of Western Australia: 3 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2): 170 [secondary reference]

Pocock, M.R. (1972), Ground orchids of Australia: photo 19 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A: 99-100 [secondary reference]

common name: Daddy Long-legs [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 195 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 23 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 27 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 54 [secondary reference]

Weber, J.Z. & Bates, R. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 2065-2066 [secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 118 [secondary reference]

common name: Daddy Long-Legs [n/a]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Orchidaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 377 [secondary reference]

common name: Daddy Long Legs [n/a]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 24 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "`Tasmania, Port Dalrymple', 1805, Paterson s.n. (lectotype specimen (a) BM! here designated; isolectotype BM!)."

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 27 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Caladenia lindleyana (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate by Lindley, J. (March 1840), The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants: 421

Bates, R.J. & Weber, J.Z. (7 December 1990), Orchids of South Australia: 45, Fig. 60 [secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Orchidaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 793 [secondary reference]

common name: Daddy Long-legs [n/a]

Bishop, A. (1996), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 1: 137 [secondary reference]

common name: Daddy Long-legs [n/a]

Jones, D.L., Wapstra, H., Tonelli, P. & Harris, S. (1999), The Orchids of Tasmania: 76 [secondary reference]

common name: Daddy Long-legs [n/a]

• Etymology: "thread-like (petals and sepals)"

Bishop, A. (2000), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 2: 137 [secondary reference]

common name: Daddy Long-legs [n/a]

Szlachetko, D.L. (28 February 2001), Genera et species Orchidalium. 1. Polish Botanical Journal 46(1): 17 [basionym]

basionym of: Calonema filamentosum (R.Br.) Szlach. legitimate

Jones, D.L., Clements, M.A., Sharma, I.K. & Mackenzie, A.M. (September 2001), A new classification of Caladenia R.Br. (Orchidaceae). The Orchadian 13(9): 401 [basionym]

basionym of: Calonema filamentosum (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. isonym

Szlachetko, D.L. (July 2002), Nomenclatural adjustments in the Thelymitroideae (Orchidaceae). Polish Botanical Journal 46(2): 139 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Calonemorchis filamentosa (R.Br.) Szlach. legitimate

Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (September 2002), Nomenclatural notes arising from studies in the Tribe Diurideae (Orchidaceae): Calonemorchis. The Orchadian 14(1): 35 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Calonemorchis filamentosa (R.Br.) Szlach. legitimate

Jeanes, J.A. in Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003), Orchidaceae. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7: 19, 20 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Caladenia filamentosa R.Br. var. filamentosa legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis filamentosa (R.Br.) Szlach. legitimate

Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (June 2003), Nomenclatural notes arising from studies into the Tribe Diurideae (Orchidaceae): Jonesiopsis. The Orchadian 14(4): 181 [basionym]

basionym of: Jonesiopsis filamentosa (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate

Hopper, S.D. & Brown, A.P. (29 April 2004), Robert Brown's Caladenia revisited, including a revision of its sister genera Cyanicula, Ericksonella and Pheladenia (Caladeniinae: Orchidaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 17(2): 204 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Calonema filamentosum (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. isonym nomenclatural synonym: Calonema filamentosum (R.Br.) Szlach. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis filamentosa (R.Br.) Szlach. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Jonesiopsis filamentosa (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate

Jessup, L.W. (2005), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 3 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [secondary reference]

• Comment: No specimen records known for Queensland so Ross (1989) occurrence should be discounted.

Jones, D.L. (2008), Field Guide to the orchids of the Australian Capital Territory: 278 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "thread-like, filamentous"

Brown, A.P. & Brockman, G. (1 May 2015), New taxa of Caladenia (Orchidaceae) from south-west Western Australia. Nuytsia 25: 69 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Caladenia denticulata Lindl. legitimate by George, A.S. & Foote, H.E. (1971), Orchids of Western Australia: 3

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Caladenia denticulata Lindl. legitimate by Pocock, M.R. (1972), Ground orchids of Australia: photo 19

Backhouse, G., Kosky, B., Rouse, D. & Turner, J. (2016), Bush Gems: A Guide to the Wild Orchids of Victoria, Australia: [pp. 75-77 of PDF] (photos, map) [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Jonesiopsis filamentosa (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phlebochilus filamentosa G.N.Backh. nom. inval. common name: Red Daddy Long-legs [n/a]

Backhouse, G., Kosky, B., Rouse, D. & Turner, J. (2016), Bush Gems: A Guide to the Wild Orchids of Victoria, Australia: [p. 78 of PDF] [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Caladenia sp. 'Kaniva Giant' [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: 95 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Calonema filamentosum (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. isonym nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis filamentosa (R.Br.) Szlach. legitimate

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: 8, 63, 67, 83, 93, 105, 110 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Caladenia filamentosa R.Br. var. filamentosa legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Calonema filamentosum (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. isonym nomenclatural synonym: Calonema filamentosa Szlach. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Calonema filamentosum (R.Br.) Szlach. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis filamentosa (R.Br.) Szlach. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Jonesiopsis filamentosa (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate

• APC Dist.: SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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

misapplied to: Caladenia sp. Monarto South (H.Goldsack 163 AD97708605A) R.J.Bates [n/a] by Weber, J.Z. & Bates, R. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 2065-2066

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

pro parte misapplied to: Caladenia paradoxa Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 24

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Caladenia paradoxa Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 23

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Caladenia paradoxa Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 54

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

pro parte misapplied to: Caladenia incensum Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 24

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Caladenia incensum Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 23

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Caladenia incensum Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 54

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

pro parte misapplied to: Caladenia footeana Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 24

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Caladenia footeana Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 23

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Caladenia footeana Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 54

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

pro parte misapplied to: Caladenia dimidia Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 24

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Caladenia dimidia Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 23

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Caladenia dimidia Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 54

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 176-177 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Calonemorchis filamentosa (R.Br.) Szlach. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Jonesiopsis filamentosa (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate common name: Daddy Long-Legs [n/a]

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