Pterostylis extranea is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It was first formally described in 2010 by David Jones and given the name Oligochaetochilus extraneus. The description was published in the journal The Orchadian from a specimen grown in the Australian National Botanic Gardens from a tuber collected near Eungella Dam.[2] In 2010, Jasmine Janes and Marco Duretto changed the name to Pterostylis extranea.[3] The specific epithet (extranea) is a Latin word meaning "strange".[4]

Pterostylis extranea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Tribe: Cranichideae
Genus: Pterostylis
Species:
P. extranea
Binomial name
Pterostylis extranea
Synonyms[1]

Oligochaetochilus extraneus D.L.Jones

References

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  1. ^ a b "Pterostylis extranea". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  2. ^ "Oligochaetochilus extraneus". APNI. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Pterostylis extranea". APNI. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  4. ^ Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 760.