Acianthus sinclairii Hook.f.

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Name scientific

Acianthus sinclairii Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 245 (1853)

Preferred name

Acianthus sinclairii Hook.f.

Taxonomy reference

Kores, P.J. 1995: A systematic study of the genus Acianthus (Orchidaceae: Diurideae). Allertonia 7(3): 87–220.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Kores, P.J. (1995)

Nomenclature

Authors

Hook.f.

Original authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): 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. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.

Year published

1853

Publication page

245

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Acianthus sinclairii Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Acianthus sinclairii

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Acianthus

Species

sinclairii

Synonyms

Acianthus fornicatus var. sinclairii (Hook.f.) Hatch

Descriptions

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

Acianthus sinclairii Hook.f.

Description

2n = 40

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.

Acianthus fornicatus var. sinclairii (Hook.f.) Hatch

Description

Plant at fl. c. 2–10 cm. tall, elongating later. Stem erect, slender. Green lf sessile, us. ¼ to ½ way up stem, c. 1–3 cm. long, ovate, acuminate, strongly cordate at base. Raceme to 5 cm. long, us. less; floral bracts often green, foliaceous, ovate, sts small and membr. Fls 1–5–(10); per. c. 6–8 mm. long, ± erect, greenish with dull red on labellum. Sepals shortly and abruptly caudate; dorsal broadly lanceolate to ovate, concave, arched over column; lateral similar in length, linear-lanceolate. Petals shorter, lanceolate, acuminate. Labellum shorter than sepals, broad-ovate; tip acute and ± recurved, sts coarsely papillose; proximal part deeply concave; 2 rounded calli at base. Column shorter than labellum, without wings. Pollinia globose, 4 in each anther cell, breaking, if at all, into tetrads of grains.