Journal Number 90
March 2004

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Chiloglottis species from Tasmania

Chiloglottis species

A hand-coloured copper engraving by Charles Bruce, from the 1833 edition of the Hobart
Town Almanack, published by James Ross.  

Bruce, a convict assigned to Ross, was an illustrator and engraver whose work appears in
several editions of the Almanack. 

The plant resembles C. formicifera, but that species is not one of the eight Chiloglottis species
listed for Tasmania by Jones (Australian Orchid Research 3, 1998).

We are grateful to the Tasmaniana Library, State Library of Tasmania for information and
permission to publish the illustration.