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Journal Number 103
May 2007
ELEMENTARY ED HATCH
Miscellaneous Terrestrials 1
Drawings by Bruce Irwin and Ian St George
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Acianthus
(sharp flower - the subulate points to the lateral sepals) |
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Acianthus sinclairii
(Dr Andrew Sinclair. Naval surgeon; Attorney General and Secretary to Governor Fitzroy. Collected many new plants
from the Auckland district)
Small plant with several flowers and a single, sessile, acuminate leaf.
Distribution - endemic Kermadec Is., Three Kings Is., North, South, Stewart, Chatham Is.
Flowers - June - August - insect pollinated. |
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Adenochilus
(lacking the lateral calli on the midlobe of the labellum) |
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Adenochilus gracilis
(slender)
Plant with long-petiolate leaves rising from the
creeping rhizome, and a sessile, ovate leaf halfway
up the flower stem.
Distribution - endemic North, South, Stewart and Chatham Is.
Flowers - November - February - self pollinated. |
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Aporostylis
(to be uncertain about the nature of the column)
A small genus allied to Caladenia, with one species in Australia and one in NZ. |
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Aporostylis bifolia
(2-leaved)
Related to Caladenia the plant has 2 leaves, glabrous
or hairy, the lower leaf larger than the upper.
Distribution - endemic - North Id., from Mount Moehau, (Coromandel Range) southwards; South, Stewart, Chatham, Antipodes, Auckland and Campbell Is.
Flowers - November - February - insect pollinated. |
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Caleana
(George Caley, Australian botanist who assisted
Robert Brown) |
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Caleana minor
(smaller than C. major)
A very odd little plant, with the labellum mounted on an irritable claw which flips the labellum completely over when an insect alights on it. In profile the open flower has an uncanny resemblance to a flying duck.
Distribution - Australia - Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland.
New Zealand - North Id., Kaitaia 1898 - 1912; Rotorua / Waiotapu 1890 -1924, and after an interval, in 1982. These possibly represent 3 separate trans-Tasman arrivals.
Flowers - October - December - insect pollinated. |
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