Chiloglottis cornuta Hook.f.

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Name scientific

Chiloglottis cornuta Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 69 (1844)

Preferred name

Chiloglottis cornuta Hook.f.

Taxonomy reference

Miller J.T.; Clements, M.A. 2014: Molecular phylogenetic analyses of Drakaeinae: Diurideae (Orchidaceae) based on DNA sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region. Australian Journal of Botany 27: 3–22.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Allan Herbarium (2017)

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

Australia

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Hook.f.

Original authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

Hooker, J.D. 1844–1845: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. I. Flora Antarctica. Part I. Botany of Lord Auckland’s Group and Campbell’s Island. Reeve, Brothers, London.

Year published

1844

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Chiloglottis cornuta Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Chiloglottis cornuta

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Chiloglottis

Species

cornuta

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Green bird orchid

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Simpliglottis cornuta (Hook.f.) Szlach.

Description

2n = 40

Description

2n = 40

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

Chiloglottis cornuta Hook.f.

Description

Plant at fl. c. 4–10 cm. tall, at fr. to 30 cm. tall, the mature capsule us. far above the floral bract. Stem erect, slightly fleshy, glab. Green lvs 2, us. close together, c. 3–10 × 1–3 cm., linear-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute to subacute, petiolate, glab. and ± fleshy. Floral bract with long cylindric sheath, lamina = or > ovary, green, sts larger and appearing as third lf. Fl. erect, between or above spreading lvs. Per. c. 1.5 cm. tall, green, glab., ± fleshy. Sepals shortly caudate; dorsal ovate-lanceolate; lateral much narrower, ± channelled. Petals slightly shorter, ovate-lanceolate, erect to spreading. Labellum broadly to narrowly triangular, on short claw; margins entire; calli dark green to reddish, ± globose, variously arranged in a ± central group, 2 often forming thickened inturned auricles near the base. Column almost as long as lip, the foot ending in a transverse thickening; wing narrow to level of stigma, there wider and extending almost to top of anther in broad, us. incurved lobe.