Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asparagales Link
Family
Orchidaceae Juss.
Genus
Aporostylis Rupp & Hatch
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Aporostylis bifolia (Hook.f.) Rupp & Hatch, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 70: 61 (1946)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Caladenia bifolia Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 247 (1853)
  • ≡ Chiloglottis bifolia (Hook.f.) Schltr. (1911)
  • = Chiloglottis traversii F.Muell., Veg. Chatham Isl. 51 (1864)
  • = Caladenia macrophylla Colenso (1895)
Vernacular Name(s):
Odd-leaved orchid
 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.

[From: Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: (Nov.)–Dec.–Jan.–(Feb.)

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