Thelymitra nervosa Colenso

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Name scientific

Thelymitra nervosa Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 20: 207 (1887 [1888])

Preferred name

Thelymitra nervosa Colenso

Linked name

Thelymitra nervosa Colenso

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Colenso

Authors

Colenso

Publication place

Colenso, W. 1888: On new Phænogamic plants of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 20: 188–211.

Year published

1887

Year on publication

1888

Publication page

207

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Thelymitra nervosa Colenso

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Thelymitra nervosa

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Thelymitra

Species

nervosa

Synonyms

Thelymitra decora Cheeseman

Descriptions

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Thelymitra nervosa Colenso

Description

2n = 54

Description

2n = 54

Description

2n = 54

Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Thelymitra decora Cheeseman

Description

Plant at fl. to 50 cm. tall. Lf to 10 mm. wide, channelled, ± distinctly keeled. Infl. to c. 10-fld. Per. c. 15 mm. long, lavender-blue with darker spots, especially on petals. Sepals and petals ovate-oblong, subacute, ± concave giving rounded appearance to fl. Labellum slightly spathulate. Column-arms terete to plano-convex in T.S.; cilia very ∞, white, arising from sides, back and top of arm and mostly standing higher than post-anther lobe; post-anther lobe narrow compared with maximum width of column, extending well above anther-tip, dark and tuberculate above the middle, margin us. yellow, finely denticulate, inclined to bend over anther though not thickened or incurved.