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 Diplodium

Orchidaceae Juss.

, nom. rej.

, scientific

Swartz, O. (July 1810), Bemerkungen uber die Disperis alata (Labillardiere).

Der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin Magazin fur die Neuesten Entdeckungen in der Gesammten Naturkunde

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84

[tax. nov.]

Type: Disperis alata Labill.

Comment: Nom. rej. vs PTEROSTYLIS R.Br. (1810) (ref. I.C.B.N. (1983) No. 1449).

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

Australian Orchid Research

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118

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pterostylis R.Br.

nom. cons.

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

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143

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pterostylis R.Br.

nom. cons.

Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (28 November 2002), A new classification of Pterostylis R.Br. (Orchidaceae).

Australian Orchid Research

:

70, Figs 2.7, 2.8, Map 5

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Pterostylis sect. Foliosae G.Don

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pterostylis ser. Grandiflorae Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pterostylis sect. Antennaea Benth.

legitimate

Jones, D.L., Clements, M.A. & Molloy, B.P.J. in Banks, D.P. (ed.) (28 November 2002), A synopsis of the subtribe Pterostylidinae.

Australian Orchid Research

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126

[secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. (2008), Field Guide to the orchids of the Australian Capital Territory

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278

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "from the Greek diplous, double; reference to the lateral sepals being fused to about the middle to form a segment about twice as wide as the other segments"

Janes, J.K. & Duretto, M.F. (31 August 2010), A new classification for subtribe Pterostylidinae (Orchidaceae), reaffirming Pterostylis in the broad sense.

Australian Systematic Botany

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263

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pterostylis sect. Foliosae G.Don

legitimate

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

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pterostylis R.Br.

nom. cons.

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

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474-475

[secondary reference]

common name:

Shell Orchids

[n/a]

common name:

Cauline Greenhoods

[n/a]