Orchid News
Updated February 2020
During 2019 a number of orchid taxa were formally named or in one case renamed following a review of the type specimen.
In the 2019 April/ May edition of the Australian Orchid Review David Jones and Chris French published a paper describing a new Diuris whilst in the December/January edition of the Australian Orchid Review they published a paper to recognise new combinations in Pterostylis.
The new names are as follows:
Diuris complex
Diuris sp. ‘south coast’ is now Diuris brockmanii
Snail complex
Pterostylis sp. ‘coastal short-eared snail’ is now Pterostylis actites
Pterostylis sp. ‘short-eared snail’ is now Pterostylis brevisepala
Pterostylis sp. ‘slender’ is now Pterostylis crispula
Pterostylis sp. ’long sepals’ is now Pterostylis gracillima
Pterostylis sp. ’Ravensthorpe’ is now Pterostylis grossa
Pterostylis sp. ’inland’ is now Pterostylis setulosa
Pterostylis sp. ’Chudalup’ is now Pterostylis tylosa
Published in Nuytsia in late 2019 Andrew Brown and Garry Brockman formally described a new Paracaleana taxon and Andrew Brown and Steve Hopper renamed Caladenia vulgata after the original type specimen was redefined as C. incensum. This then required a new type specimen as well as a new name.
The new names are as follows;
Paracaleana complex
Paracaleana sp. ’laterite’ (Darling Range duck) is now Paracaleana ferricola
Caladenia complex
Caladenia vulgata is now Caladenia varians
Courtesy of Kevin Uhe