Lindley, J. (September 1840), The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants: 521 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Hab in Tasmannia; solo sterili sabuloso, ad ripas fl. Welcome, alibique, Nov. et Dec. Gunn 939, 941."

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 319 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra grandis Benth. nom. inval., pro syn. misapplication: Thelymitra angustifolia 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): 5-6

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: 189 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Thelymitra angustifolia 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): 5-6

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 258 [secondary reference]

Rogers, R.S. in Black, J.M. (1922), Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 120 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Bearded, referring to the hair-tufts.

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 22 [secondary reference]

Nicholls, W.H. (1935), The sun orchids of Australia. Orchidologia Zeylanica 2(4): 155, fig. [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra megcalyptra Fitzg. legitimate common name: Sweet Scented Sun Orchid [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 215, Fig. 296, i (1-3) [secondary reference]

Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944), The Orchids of New South Wales: 8-9 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra grandis Benth. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra megcalyptra Fitzg. legitimate common name: Scented Sun-orchid [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 472 [secondary reference]

Beard, J.S. in Beard, J.S. (ed.) (1965), Descriptive Catalogue of West Australian Plants: 17 [secondary reference]

common name: Scented Sun orchid [n/a]

Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 74-75 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra grandis Benth. nom. inval., pro syn. misapplication: Thelymitra angustifolia 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): 5-6

Nicholls, W.H. in Jones, D.L. & Muir, T.B. (ed.) (1969), Orchids of Australia: 6, pl. 28 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 130 [secondary reference]

common name: Scented Sun Orchid [n/a]

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 348 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Thelymitra longifolia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. legitimate by Ewart, A.J. (1931), Flora of Victoria: 331

George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2): 193 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Recorded for Western Australia by Bentham (Fl. Austral. 6: 319), and later workers, but the name has been misapplied to forms of the Thelymitra nuda complex, and the species does not occur here. T. aristata Lindl. is the correct name for the species previously known (efg. Nicholls 1951, 1969) as T. grandiflora R.Fitzg., Gard. Chron. 1: 495 (1882), which must be reduced to synonymy."

Jones, D.L. (September 1977), Miscellaneous notes on Australian Orchidaceae 2 - reduction of 6 teratological forms to synonymy. The Orchadian 5(9): 128 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra murdochiae Nicholls legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4A: 42, Fig. 5P [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra grandiflora Fitzg. legitimate common name: Great Sun-orchid [n/a]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 268 [secondary reference]

common name: Scented Sun Orchid [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 34 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 6 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Thelymitra nuda R.Br. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 22

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Thelymitra nuda R.Br. legitimate by Beard, J.S. in Beard, J.S. (ed.) (1965), Descriptive Catalogue of West Australian Plants: 17

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 288 [secondary reference]

common name: Giant Sun Orchid [n/a] common name: Great Sun Orchid [n/a]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 138 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Tasmania, Welcome River near Woolnorth, Nov. 1837, R. Gunn 939 (lecto K-L!)"

taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra grandiflora Fitzg. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra murdochiae Nicholls legitimate

Bates, R.J. & Weber, J.Z. (7 December 1990), Orchids of South Australia: 151-152 (map), Fig. 223, Plate 198 [secondary reference]

common name: tall sun-orchid [n/a] common name: great sun-orchid [n/a] common name: Giant sun-orchid [n/a]

• Etymology: "The name aristata (awned) refers to the floral bracts which are abruptly contracted into long acuminate points."

Bernhardt, P. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Thelymitra. Flora of New South Wales 4: 149 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Thelymitra aristata Lindl. var. aristata legitimate common name: Great Sun Orchid [n/a] common name: Scented Sun Orchid [n/a]

Dockrill, A.W. (1993), Australian Indigenous Orchids Edn. 2, 1: 170 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Thelymitra nuda R.Br. legitimate by Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 74-75

Weber, J.Z. & Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Thelymitra. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 848-849, Fig. 179a-c [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra murdochiae Nicholls legitimate misapplication: Thelymitra grandiflora Fitzg. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 347 common name: Great Sun-orchid [n/a]

Weber, J.Z. & Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Thelymitra. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 846 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Thelymitra nuda R.Br. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 348

Bishop, A. (1996), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 1: 27-28, Plate 59 [secondary reference]

common name: Great Sun Orchid [n/a]

Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (1998), A taxonomic review of Thelymitra in Tasmania. Australian Orchid Research 3: 182-183 [secondary reference]

Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (1999), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania Edn. 3: 68 [secondary reference]

Jones, D.L., Wapstra, H., Tonelli, P. & Harris, S. (1999), The Orchids of Tasmania: 265 [secondary reference]

common name: Great Sun Orchid [n/a]

• Etymology: "awned (column mid-lobe)"

Bishop, A. (2000), Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria Edn. 2: 27-28, Plate 59 [secondary reference]

common name: Great Sun 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: 28 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra murdochiae Nicholls legitimate misapplication: Thelymitra grandiflora Fitzg. legitimate by Fitzgerald, R.D. (1882), New Australian Orchids. Gardeners' Chronicle, n.ser 17(433): 495

Jeanes, J.A. in Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003), Orchidaceae. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7: 28 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Thelymitra nuda R.Br. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 348

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: 201 [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: 202 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Thelymitra nuda R.Br. legitimate by Lindley, J. (September 1840), The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants: 521

Jeanes, J.A. (1 July 2011), Resolution of the Thelymitra aristata (Orchidaceae) complex of south-eastern Australia. Muelleria 29(2): 119-120, Figs 1c, 2c, 5g-i [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra murdochiae Nicholls legitimate

Jeanes, J.A. (2013), An overview of the Thelymitra nuda (Orchidaceae) complex in Australia including the description of six new species. Muelleria 31: 26 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Thelymitra alpina Jeanes legitimate by Nicholls, W.H. in Jones, D.L. & Muir, T.B. (ed.) (1969), Orchids of Australia: 6, pl. 28

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 103 [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: 48, 100, 108, 119 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Thelymitra aristata Lindl. var. aristata legitimate taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra murdochae Nicholls orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra murdochiae Nicholls legitimate misapplication: Thelymitra grandiflora Fitzg. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 347

• APC Dist.: SA, NSW, Vic, Tas

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

pro parte misapplied to: Thelymitra nuda R.Br. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 348

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Thelymitra nuda R.Br. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 215, Fig. 296, i (1-3)

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Thelymitra nuda R.Br. legitimate by Dockrill, A.W. (1969), Australian Indigenous Orchids: 74-75

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 439 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Thelymitra murdochiae Nicholls legitimate common name: Great Sun Orchid [n/a]

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