Genoplesium littorale D.L.Jones

Tuncurry midge orchid (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae > Genoplesium

Characteristics

Leaf 100–250 mm long; free part 10–18 mm long, ending below flowers. Spike 10–30 mm long, 5–30-flowered. Flowers moderately crowded, semi-nodding, 5 × 4 mm, green with purple-brown labellum. Dorsal sepal 3.8 × 2.5 mm; margins glabrous; apex sharply pointed. Lateral sepals deflexed, divergent, 4.5 × 1 mm, base humped. Petals 3 × 0.8 mm, spreading; margins glabrous; apex sharply pointed. Labellum stiffly hinged, 2.5 × 0.8 mm, oblong, fleshy; margins glabrous; apex sharply pointed and recurved. Callus dark purplish black, thickest and broadest near base then narrowed and drawn-out to blunt apex, extending nearly to labellum apex.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Environment

Highly localised; restricted to small patches of scrub on consolidated sand dunes close to the sea and rehabilitated sand mining paths in freely draining sand.
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Distribution

Genoplesium littorale world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1019535-1
WFO ID wfo-0000429334
COL ID 3FLLW
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Genoplesium littorale Corunastylis littoralis