Drymoanthus minutus Nicholls

Green midget orchid (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae > Drymoanthus

Characteristics

Plants usually consisting of single growth with numerous coarse roots. Stems 20–40 mm long. Leaves 2–5, 30–50 × 6–10 mm, crowded, bases closely overlapping, often curved, dark green, leathery. Racemes 10–25 mm long, stiff, 1–7-flowered. Flowers cupped, 2.5–3 × 2–2.5 mm, green to yellowish with white labellum. Sepals and petals narrow, fleshy. Dorsal sepal c. 2.5 × 0.8 mm. Lateral sepals c. 2.5 × 0.8 mm. Petals c. 2.3 × 0.3 mm. Labellum c. 2 × 1 mm, fleshy, channelled, lacking lateral lobes callus and spur. Capsules 10–15 mm long.
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Locally common, growing typically as twig epiphyte on trees in swampy areas, on rainforest trees close to streams and also on bottlebrushes in vegetation that lines watercourses, sometimes even within stream bed itself.
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Distribution

Drymoanthus minutus world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:630651-1
WFO ID wfo-0000946309
COL ID 6DN7R
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Synonyms

Drymoanthus minutus