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Gastrodia R.Br.

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Gastrodia R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 330 (1810)
Gastrodia R.Br.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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R.Br.
R.Br.
1810
330
ICN
Gastrodia R.Br.
genus
Gastrodia

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Gastrodia

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Gastrodia R.Br.

Raceme of few to many pedicellate fls; floral bracts short, scarious. Per. tubular with 5 fleshy lobes, ± split between the lateral sepals which stand uppermost; tube gibbous beneath labellum; petal lobes small and just within mouth of tube. Labellum included, adnate to gibbous part of tube, its free portion ± oblong with submedian longitudinal calli and undulate margins. Column us. long, very narrowly winged; anther terminal, erect then bending forward, pollen in angular granules; stigma broad, basal, hollow; rostellum represented by flap under anther. Plants terrestrial, non-green; rhizome elongated, sympodially branched, mycorrhizal, bulky and filled with starch, nodes bearing remnants of scale lvs. Lvs represented on erect stem only by short loose sheathing scales. About 15 spp., from Himalayas to Japan and southwards through Malaya to Australasia. One N.Z. sp. shared with Australia, the other 2 endemic and both with short columns.

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Gastrodia R.Br.
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Gastrodia
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Gastrodia R.Br.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Gastrodia R.Br.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

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420f3b6b-1b0a-4238-81fe-0fd76cb6a5be
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
20 September 2005
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