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New Zealand Native Orchid Group - Field Trip 2010 Te Kauri Lodge - Waikato
The lodge is fully equipped; with lounge, dining room, kitchen, laundry/drying rooms and food preparation/clean up room. The maximum capacity is 100. The dorms are suitable for both children and adults. The kitchen, dinning and lounge are in the same building. There is a camp site 30-45 minutes walk from the lodge, where you may see glow worms and luminescent fresh water limpets. A toilet is available courtesy of DoC at the camp site. There are a number of easy/medium walks/tramps commencing from the Lodge.
Notice of the Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Native Orchid Group Inc Te Kauri Lodge
Second Edition of the Colour Field Guide now available After a longer than expected updating process, the 2nd edition of Eric Scanlen's Colour Field Guide The Field Guide covers all the described and undescribed native orchids so far identified. To order your copy please see our Publications page. 6th Australasian Native Orchid Conference and Show 25th - 29th August 2010 Newcastle Panthers Club, Corner King and Union Streets, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. For information contact Peter Denning at: OBITUARY: Edwin Daniel Hatch FLS 1919 - 2008 Dan Hatch died in his 90th year, on 4 November after a short illness. He had been intellectually able and contributing to debate about native orchids until shortly before his death. Dan Hatch is one of the great contributors to our knowledge of New Zealand orchids. His father's family moved to the native bush at Laingholm, on the Manukau coast at the foot of the Waitakeres, soon after their arrival in New Zealand in 1922 and Dan Hatch lived there all his life. He grew up with botany, and botanised from age fourteen. During the 1939-45 War Dan Hatch was posted to Waiouru. Nearby he found seven orchids not listed in Cheeseman's Manual of the NZ Flora. He sent them to the Botany Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, but at this time Botany Division was not working on orchids. He wrote nineteen orchid papers for the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand from 1945 to 1963 - among over a hundred published botanical papers. His father, the senior E.D. Hatch (a domestic architect of the Arts & Crafts movement), drew most of the orchids for the T.R.S.N.Z. papers, but Dan Hatch did his own illustrations for his booklet Auckland's orchids, and for his papers on the leafless spider orchid Corybas (Molloybas) cryptanthus, and on the equally strange leafless Yoania (Danhatchia) australis. He was honoured by the generic name Danhatchia (Garay & Christensen), and in the specific epithet of Thelymitra hatchii (Moore). He was made a Fellow of the Linnaean Society. Dan Hatch was the quintessential amateur botanist: an expert in a narrow field at a time when professionals were simply not interested, or had more pressing work. NAME CHANGES (2007): NZNOG ACCEPTS NAME CHANGES: ( October 2008 ) The publication last December of Dawson, Molloy and Beuzenberg's paper on the chromosomes of Their studies gave, for example, more support to splitting Caladenia and Pterostylis into new genera (changes we had instinctively not liked), than to splitting Adelopetalum and Ichthyostomum from Bulbophyllum (changes we had already accepted). It is therefore logical now to accept most of the changes proposed by Mark Clements, David Jones, Pterostylis alveata is now Diplodium alveatum Pterostylis brumalis is now Diplodium brumale Pterostylis trullifolia is now Diplodium trullifolium Pterostylis tanypoda is now Hymenochilus tanypodus Pterostylis tristis is now Hymenochilus tristis Pterostylis puberula is now Linguella puberula Pterostylis tasmanica is now Plumatichilos tasmanicum Chiloglottis cornuta is now Simpliglottis cornuta Chiloglottis valida is now Simpliglottis valida Chiloglottis trapeziformis is now Myrmechila trapeziformis Paracaleana minor is now Sullivania minor Cyrtostylis reniformis is now Cyrtostylis rotundifolia Caladenia is now split into Petalochilus and Stegostyla
Nematoceras macrantha becomes Nematoceras macranthum NEW ORCHID NAME: PRASOPHYLLUM HECTORII The orchid tagged "Prasophyllum aff patens" for many years has now been officially named as Prasophyllum hectorii (Molloy, D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. Orchadian 15: 41 (2005)).
27th February 2004
Two Czech men were today fined $7500 each for trying to smuggle native orchid plants out of New Zealand. Cardiologist Cestmir Cihalik, 54, and Jindrich Smitak, 60, a Czech government environmental protection agency inspector, were sentenced in Manukau District Court in what has been described as the first prosecution of its kind in New Zealand. The men were arrested by the Wildlife Enforcement Group, a unit made up of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Customs and Department of Conservation staff, at Auckland Airport on January 18 as they were about to leave New Zealand. Smitak also admitted three other charges of taking native plants without authority from Nelson Lakes National Park, Mt Aspiring National Park and Fiordland National Park. The men arrived in New Zealand late in December and travelled the country's North and South Island in a rental car before they were arrested.
The court was told earlier they visited New Zealand "to undertake a carefully planned plant collecting expedition". Cihalik had 40 individual plants
comprising 15 native orchid species in his luggage. All were plants subject to the Trade in Endangered Species Act and the National Parks Act.
Smitak had 18 species of native orchid, comprising 43 individual plants, in his luggage. He took 36 specimens of native plants from national parks.
Pterostylis silvicultrix is the new name for the orchid we have called Pterostylis banksii var. silvicultrix - Pterostylis auriculata is now the official name for the Greenhood which had been tag-named Pterostylis "catlins" - a Greenhood from the South Island.
ACCEPTED NAME CHANGES TO SOME SPECIES OF NZ ORCHID ARE AS FOLLOWS:
In September 2001 the Australian orchid Myrmechila trapeziformis was found growing beneath Specimens
have been transplanted into the Native Orchid Reserve near Taupo where they are This species is obviously a Trans-Tasman vagrant, so we will need to be on the lookout for any |
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