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 Empusa habenarina

Orchidaceae Juss.

Empusa habenarina (F.Muell.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones

, legitimate

, scientific

Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (June 2004), Miscellaneous new species, new genera, reinstated genera and new combinations in Australian Orchidaceae.

The Orchadian, Scientific Supplement

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xiv

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Sturmia habenarina F.Muell.

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

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27, 73, 81, 87, 129

[secondary reference]

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

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Liparis habenarina (F.Muell.) Benth.

legitimate

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

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643

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Sturmia habenarina F.Muell.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Liparis habenarina (F.Muell.) Benth.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Leptorkis habenarina (F.Muell.) Kuntze

legitimate

common name:

Hobgoblin Orchid

[n/a]

Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2

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308

[secondary reference]

common name:

Common Sphinx Orchid

[n/a]

Etymology: "Refers to it's resemblance to the species in the genus Habenaria."

Barrett, R.L., Barrett, M.D. & Clements, M.A. (12 August 2022), A revision of Orchidaceae from the Kimberley region of Western Australia with new species of tropical Calochilus and Dipodium.

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237-238, Figs 1D (map), 12

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Sturmia habenarina F.Muell.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Liparis habenarina (F.Muell.) Benth.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Leptorkis habenarina (F.Muell.) Kuntze

legitimate

common name:

Hobgoblin orchid

[n/a]

common name:

Kimberley mosquito orchid

[n/a]

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (21 March 2023), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2022.

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14

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Liparis habenarina (F.Muell.) Benth.

legitimate