Microtis unifolia (G.Forst.) Rchb.f.

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Name scientific

Microtis unifolia (G.Forst.) Rchb.f. (1871)

Preferred name

Microtis unifolia (G.Forst.) Rchb.f.

Taxonomy reference

Parsons, M.J.; Douglass, P.; Macmillan, B.H. 1998: Current Names List for wild Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons (except Grasses) of New Zealand as used in Herbarium CHR. Version 1, to 31 Dec 1995. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Linked name

Microtis unifolia (G.Forst.) Rchb.f.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Allan Herbarium (2017)

also present on Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands and Tasmania

Nomenclature

Authors

(G.Forst.) Rchb.f.

Original authors

G.Forst.

Combination authors

Rchb.f.

Year published

1871

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Ophrys unifolia G.Forst.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Microtis unifolia

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Microtis

Species

unifolia

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Language of use: Māori

Māikaika

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Microtis unifolia (G.Forst.) Rchb.f.

Description

2n = 88

Description

2n = 88

Description

2n = 88

Description

2n = 88

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

Microtis unifolia (G.Forst.) Rchb.f.

Description

Plant at fl.10–100 cm. tall. Stem erect, ± fleshy. Lf often overtopping raceme. Raceme occ. to 30 × 1 cm., us. smaller; fls few to ∞, us. almost touching throughout. Per. green. Dorsal sepal c. 3 mm. long, tip acute and us. slightly turned upwards; laterals shorter, acute, deflexed, tips sts tending to coil under. Petals ± under dorsal sepal. Labellum oblong, often narrowest about mid-length; tip truncate to emarginate, not apiculate though sts folded to appear so; margin papillose and us. also crenate and undulate; anterior callus variously developed, verrucose, often raised on a rounded ridge; large basal calli oval, prominent, us. continuous at sides with narrow band of callus behind transverse furrow which is slit-like, not pouched; labellum standing away from ovary at very narrow angle. Base of column about as broad as stigma; wings us. membr. throughout.