Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Caladenia lateritica
Orchidaceae Juss.
Caladenia lateritica K.W.Dixon & Christenh. , legitimate, scientific
Dixon, K.W. & Christenhusz, M.J.M. (2018), Endangered fairies: two new species of Caladenia (Orchidaceae; Orchidoideae; Diurideae), from the bauxite plateaux of southwestern Western Australia. Phytotaxa 334(1): 87-88, Fig. 1 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "AUSTRALIA. Western Australia: Waroona, Mount Nyngan, 13 km northeast of Waroona, situated between Nyngan Brook and the Murray River, 21 October 2017, Dixon 1076 (holotype: PERTH; isotypes: CANB, PERTH)."
  • Etymology: "Named for the lateritic soils to which this species is restricted."
Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (28 March 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2018. Nuytsia 30: 8 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Caladenia flava subsp. sylvestris Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate
Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 96 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Caladenia flava subsp. sylvestris Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Caladenia flava subsp. sylvestris Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate
Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 1: 154 [secondary reference]
common name: Forest Fairy Orchid [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Latin lateritica (laterite), in reference to the lateritic soul in which the species grows."