Thelymitra pauciflora R.Br.

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Name scientific

Thelymitra pauciflora R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 314 (1810)

Preferred name

Thelymitra pauciflora R.Br.

Linked name

Thelymitra pauciflora R.Br.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Jeanes, J.A. (2004)

Nomenclature

Original authors

R.Br.

Authors

R.Br.

Publication place

Brown, R. 1810: Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen. Johnson, London.

Year published

1810

Publication page

314

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Thelymitra pauciflora R.Br.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Thelymitra pauciflora

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Thelymitra

Species

pauciflora

Synonyms

Thelymitra cornuta Colenso

Descriptions

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

Thelymitra pauciflora R.Br.

Description

2n = 26

Description

2n = 26

Description

2n = 26

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

Thelymitra pauciflora R.Br.

Description

Plant at fl. c. 5–40 cm. tall. Lf c. 10–15 mm. wide, channelled, fleshy, keeled, us. without longitudinal ribs. Infl. us. slender, capsules often maturing without per. having opened; fls to c. 10, us. fewer. Per. c. 8–12 mm. long, us. lilac-pink, without stripes or spots. Sepals, petals and labellum similar, elliptic, subacute. Column-arms terete, us. ± erect; cilia white, rather sparse and straight, mostly projecting above post-anther lobe; post-anther lobe overtopping anther, dark above middle and us. yellow on margin which is so turned in as to appear deeply cleft or bifid, the 2 halves rounded and meeting along mid line above anther.