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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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Scented Sun Orchid

Scented Sun Orchid

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Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

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130

[common name]

common name of:

Thelymitra aristata Lindl.

legitimate

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1

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268

[common name]

common name of:

Thelymitra aristata Lindl.

legitimate

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984), Orchids of South-West Australia

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~ 56-57

[common name]

common name of:

Thelymitra nuda R.Br.

legitimate

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

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843

[common name]

common name of:

Thelymitra nuda R.Br.

legitimate

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia

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300

[common name]

common name of:

Thelymitra nuda R.Br.

legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Orchidaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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392

[common name]

common name of:

Thelymitra nuda R.Br.

legitimate

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2

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269

[common name]

common name of:

Thelymitra macrophylla Lindl.

legitimate

Bernhardt, P. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Thelymitra.

Flora of New South Wales

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149

[common name]

common name of:

Thelymitra aristata Lindl.

legitimate

Bernhardt, P. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Thelymitra.

Flora of New South Wales

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~ 148, pl. 10

[common name]

common name of:

Thelymitra megcalyptra Fitzg.

legitimate

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised)

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269

[common name]

common name of:

Thelymitra macrophylla Lindl.

legitimate

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3

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326

[common name]

common name of:

Thelymitra macrophylla Lindl.

legitimate

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

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244

[common name]

common name of:

Thelymitra macrophylla Lindl.

legitimate

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

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242

[common name]

common name of:

Thelymitra macrophylla Lindl.

legitimate