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Pterostylis valida (Nicholls) D.L.Jones (1994:191)

Robust greenhood orchid, Robust greenhood

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonyms: Pterostylis squamata var. valida Nicholls in Vict. Naturalist 58: 115 (1941); Oligochaetochilus validus (Nicholls) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. in Austral. Orchid Res. 4: 78 (2002)

 

Considered a synonym of P. excelsa by (Govaerts, 2003; Humphreys et al., 2019).

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1941 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:17)

Rediscovered in 2009; 2010 (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:17)

 

Distribution

Victoria, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Nicholls, W. H. (1941). Two New Varieties of Orchids.Victorian Naturalist V 58: 115.

 

Other references:

DEECA [Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action]. (2023). Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 Threatened List: June 2023. Published report by The State of Victoria Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, Melbourne, Victoria.

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]

Jones, D. L. (1994). Muelleria 8(2): 191.

Kuiter, Rudie H. (2016). Orchid Pollinators of Victoria, 4th edition. Seaford: Aquatic Photographics.

Kuiter, Rudie H. (2017). Identity of Pterostylis valida (Orchidaceae). Short paper 3, June 2017. Unpublished.

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.

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/ag-blog/2010/12/extinct-orchid-found-after-70-years/

http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/1901200/extinct-orchid-flowers-at-inglewood/?cs=3380

 

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