Aporostylis bifolia (Hook.f.) Rupp & Hatch

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Name scientific

Aporostylis bifolia (Hook.f.) Rupp & Hatch, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 70: 61 (1946)

Preferred name

Aporostylis bifolia (Hook.f.) Rupp & Hatch

Taxonomy reference

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

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. (1970)

Nomenclature

Authors

(Hook.f.) Rupp & Hatch

Original authors

Hook.f.

Combination authors

Rupp & Hatch

Publication place

Rupp, H.M.R.; Hatch, E. D. 1946: Relation of the Orchid Flora of Australia to that of New Zealand. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 70: 53–61.

Year published

1946

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Caladenia bifolia Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Aporostylis bifolia

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Aporostylis

Species

bifolia

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Odd-leaved orchid

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Aporostylis bifolia (Hook.f.) Rupp & Hatch

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.

Aporostylis bifolia (Hook.f.) Rupp & Hatch

Description

Plant at fl. c. 5–20 cm. tall. Stem erect, slender, glandular-pubescent, us. densely. Green lvs 2, us. close together, the lower to 10–(15) cm. long, the upper us. shorter; linear-lanceolate to broadly ovate-oblong, often brown-blotched, clad, sts very sparsely, in long, glandular-tipped hairs which also us. fringe margin. Fl. held well above lvs; ovary glandular-pubescent. Per. to 2.5 cm. diam., white or pink. Sepals ± glandular-pubescent externally; dorsal much the widest, slightly arched over column; lateral linear-lanceolate. Petals slightly shorter. Labellum orbicular-obovate, with narrow base; calli yellow, in 2 median rows near base. Column-wings joined in front of base, narrow to level of stigma, there wider and extending upwards as small, often pointed lobes, one on each side of anther.