Flora of New Zealand Series

Fl. solitary or very few in loose raceme; floral bracts us. 2–3, small. Per. glandular-pubescent; dorsal sepal uppermost, erect or ± incurved over column, us. narrow; lateral sepals and petals sub-similar and sts spreading symmetrically. Labellum very shortly clawed, half-erect, undivided or 3-lobed; margins often fringed or toothed; calli ± clavate, in ± regular longitudinal rows. Column elongate, erect to incurved, winged; anther terminal, apiculate, surface often papillose, pollinia 2 per cell, pollen finely granular; stigma discoid, inclined downwards; rostellum median. Plants terrestrial, with pilose or glandular hairs; tubers ± globose, the new ones produced ± within lf-sheaths. Lf solitary, ± hirsute, linear to lanceolate. Genus of c. 75 spp. mainly Australian but also in Malaysia and New Caledonia. The 2 N.Z. spp. both occur also in Australia, C. carnea being one of the 15 spp. originally included in the genus by Robert Brown.

Fig. 22. ADENOCHILUS, CALADENIA. Lettering as in fig. 20, p. 103. © All rights reserved. [Image: 4X2E]