We value your privacy

We use cookies and other technologies to enhance your experience, analyse site usage, help with reporting, and assist in other ways to improve the website. You can choose to allow cookies and other technologies or decline. Your choice will not affect site functionality.

Click for help
Volume II (1970) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Monocotyledons except Graminae
Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Chiloglottis R.Br.

CHILOGLOTTIS R. Br., 1810

Fl. solitary or occ. 2; floral bract attached some distance below ovary, the intervening portion of stem elongating as fr. ripens. Per. glab.; dorsal sepal uppermost, erect or incurved, narrowed to base; lateral sepals and petals narrower, sts strongly deflexed. Labellum ± clawed, undivided; margins entire; calli prominent, variously shaped and arranged. Column elongate, erect to slightly curved, winged, with short column-foot; anther terminal, apiculate, papillose, pollinia 2 per cell, pollen finely granular; stigma prominent, discoid; rostellum small, median. Plants terrestrial, us. glab.; tubers ovoid, us. produced at some distance from parent plant. Lvs 2 (floral bract occ. foliaceous), basal, ± oblong. Genus of 6–7 spp., all found in eastern Australia.

Key

1
Petals not or only slightly deflexed; claw of labellum very short
1. cornuta
Petals deflexed against ovary; claw of labellum as long as limb
2. formicifera
Fig. 23. APOROSTYLIS, CHILOGLOTTIS, LYPERANTHUS. Lettering as in fig. 20, p. 103. © All rights reserved. [Image: 4X2F]
Fig. 23. APOROSTYLIS, CHILOGLOTTIS, LYPERANTHUS. Lettering as in fig. 20, p. 103. © All rights reserved. [Image: 4X2F]
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top