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 Acianthus viridis

Orchidaceae Juss.

Acianthus viridis Hook.f.

, legitimate

, scientific

Hooker, J.D. (1859), Additions, corrections &c.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae

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372

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Base of Mount Wellington (Oct., Nov., 1839-40), Gunn."

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

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90

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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113

[secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

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201

BHL

[secondary reference]

Schlechter, F.R.R. (1911), Die Gattung Townsonia Cheesem.

Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis

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250

[basionym]

basionym of:

Townsonia viridis (Hook.f.) Schltr.

legitimate

Jones, D.L. & Muir, T.B. in Jones, D.L. & Muir, T.B. (ed.) (1969), Orchids of Australia

:

53

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Townsonia viridis (Hook.f.) Schltr.

legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1980), Angiospermae: Orchidaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

118-119, Fig. 22, Pl. 19

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Townsonia viridis (Hook.f.) Schltr.

legitimate

common name:

Tasmanian Beech Orchid

[n/a]

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

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389

[secondary reference]

common name:

Beech Orchid

[n/a]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae.

Australian Orchid Research

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9-10

[secondary reference]

Type: "'Tasmania; Base of Mount Wellington', Nov. 1939-40, R. Gunn s.n. (holo K!, iso K-L!)."

nomenclatural synonym:

Townsonia viridis (Hook.f.) Schltr.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Townsonia deflexa Cheeseman

legitimate

Kores, P.J. in Holttum, R.E. (1995), A systematic study of the genus Acianthus (Orchidaceae: Diurideae).

:

210

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Townsonia viridis (Hook.f.) Schltr.

legitimate

Jones, D.L. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (1998), Introduction and the genera Acianthus, Arthrochilus, X Calassodia, Calochilus, Corybas, Cyrtostylis, Dipodium, Dockrillia, Gastrodia, Leptoceras, Microtis, Pyrorchis and Townsonia.

Australian Orchid Research

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12

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Townsonia viridis (Hook.f.) Schltr.

legitimate

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

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

:

94

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Townsonia viridis (Hook.f.) Schltr.

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Townsonia viridis (Hook.f.) Schltr.

legitimate

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

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55

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Townsonia viridis (Hook.f.) Schltr.

legitimate