Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Thelymitra silena

Orchidaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Asparagales(ordo)
Orchidaceae(fam.)
Thelymitra(gen.)
silena(sp.)

Thelymitra silena D.L.Jones

, legitimate

, scientific

Jones, D.L. (March 1999), Notes on Tasmanian Orchidaceae including the description of two new species of Thelymitra J.R. & G.Forst.

The Orchadian

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518-519, Fig. 2

[tax. nov.]

Type: Tasmania, Clarke Island, flat at foot of Green Hill, 12 Nov. 1998, J.E & A. Wapstra (ORG 1810) (holotype CANB, isotypes AD, HO, MEL).

Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (1999), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania Edn. 3

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68

[secondary reference]

Jones, D.L., Wapstra, H., Tonelli, P. & Harris, S. (1999), The Orchids of Tasmania

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285

[secondary reference]

common name:

Madonna Sun Orchid

[n/a]

Etymology: "a bearded, bald woodland god (column)"

Jeanes, J.A. (1 July 2011), Resolution of the Thelymitra aristata (Orchidaceae) complex of south-eastern Australia.

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117-119, Figs 1b, 2b, 5d-f

BHL

[secondary reference]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census.

A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

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104

[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

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50, 108

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census

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- APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: Tas

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3

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441

[secondary reference]

common name:

Madonna Sun Orchid

[n/a]