Talk:Microtis (plant)

parviflora and unifolia synonymous?
Kew gives M. parviflora as a synonym of M. unifolia but both are described as separate species by the herbaria in N.S.W. Victoria and South Australia as well as by the Orchid Society of New Zealand. Bates notes: "Garay and Sweet (1974) gave ‘’M. parviflora’’ as a synonym of ‘’M. unifolia’’ but they were referring to Asian plants and this treatment has never been accepted in Australia or New Zealand."Gderrin (talk)


 * WCSP has an enough errors that it should not be considered the ultimate authority on plant names (although it's usually an authoritative source). IF WCSP's synonymy is based on a 1974 paper, it's worth reconsidering that in light of more recent locally relevant sources that reject the synonymy. I'm going to redirect M. unifolia to the genus for now, but it should be deserving of an article if anybody is inclined to write one. Plantdrew (talk) 05:37, 11 July 2016 (UTC) Thanks - I'll get to the article soon. Gderrin (talk)