Oberonia attenuata Dockrill (1960:4)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Invalid (synonym of O. insectifera) (Geiger, 2019:129).
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of O. insectifera) (Geiger, 2019:129).
Last record: 12 June 1960; 1964 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:17)
Rediscovered in 2015 (Banks, 2016) prior to synonymisation
Distribution
Cape York Peninsula (south-eastern), Queensland, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Dockrill, A. W. (1960). A new species of Oberonia (Orchidaceae) from North Queensland. The North Queensland Naturalist 29(126): 4.
Other references:
Backhouse, Gary N., Bates, Robert J., Brown, Andrew P. and Copeland, Lachlan M. (2016). Checklist of the Orchids of Australia Including its Island Territories. Version 1. Unpublished. 139 pp.
Backhouse, Gary N., Bates, Robert J., Brown, Andrew P. and Copeland, Lachlan M. (2019). Checklist of the Orchids of Australia Including its Island Territories, second edition. Melbourne. 148 pp.
Banks, D. (2016). Oberonia attenuata rediscovered! The Australian Orchid Review, June-July 2016: 31-33.
Clements, M. A. (1989). Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. In: Australian Orchid Research. 1. Essendon, Victoria: Australian Orchid Foundation.
Department of the Environment. (2015). Oberonia attenuata in Species Profile and Threats Database, Department of the Environment, Canberra. Available from: https://www.environment.gov.au/sprat. Accessed Fri, 6 Feb 2015 23:43:21 +1100.
Dockrill, A. W. (1992). Australian indigenous orchids, revised edition. Sydney, SGAP, NSW Region.
Field, Ashley R. and Zich, Frank A. (2012). Types of enigmatic north-Queensland Orchids from the Dockrill herbarium. Austrobaileya 8(4): 696-698.
Geiger, D. L. (2019). Studies on Oberonia 5 (Orchidaceae: Malaxideae). Twenty-four new synonyms, and a corrected spelling. Blumea 64(2): 123-139.
Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Hnatiuk, R. J. (1990). Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series 11: 1-650.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Pedersen, H. Æ. et al. (2022). Flora of Thailand 12(3): 671-1015. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.
Silcock, Jen L., Field, Ashley R., Walsh, Neville G. and Fensham, Roderick J. (2019). To name those lost: assessing extinction likelihood in the Australian vascular flora. Oryx 54(2): 167-177. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605318001357 [Supplementary Material]
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.
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