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New Zealand Native Orchid Group - Field Trip 2010
Friday 26th to Sunday 28th November 2010

Te Kauri Lodge - Waikato
3679 State Highway 31- ( Road from Pirongia to Kawhia )
Waikato

Te Kauri Lodge Website

Location Map


The lodge consists of two 37-bed dorms, smaller separate 4-bed rooms, and two 4/5-bed flats.

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.
West Pirongia Hihikiwi track is a short drive away.


For bookings and more information please contact:

Gary Penniall
637 Otaraoa Rd
RD 43
Waitara
Taranaki





Notice of the Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Native Orchid Group Inc
To be held on Saturday 27th November 2010 at 7 p.m

Te Kauri Lodge
3679 State Highway 31
RD8
Te Awamutu 3878


Agenda

1. Present and apologies
2. 2009 minutes and issues arising
3. Chair's report
4. Treasurer's report
5. Elections
6. Presentation of 2010 Hatch Medal
7. General business


For more information contact:
Gary Penniall





Second Edition of the Colour Field Guide now available
26th May 2010

After a longer than expected updating process, the 2nd edition of Eric Scanlen's Colour Field Guide
is now available at the reduced cost of only $20.

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
the NZ orchids has made our hitherto conservative approach to the new orchid taxonomy no longer tenable.

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,
Brian Molloy and others over the last few years, and to that end the website has been updated, and
the nomenclature in the Journals will follow suit.

Pterostylis alobula is now Diplodium alobulum
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

 



NAME CHANGES (2007):

Nematoceras epithets must be neuter, therefore the following changes to Spider Orchid names
must occur:

Nematoceras macrantha becomes Nematoceras macranthum
Nematoceras triloba becomes Nematoceras trilobum
Nematoceras orbiculata becomes Nematoceras orbiculatum
Nematoceras longipetala becomes Nematoceras longipetalum
Nematoceras acuminata becomes Nematoceras acuminatum
Nematoceras hypogaea becomes Nematoceras hypogaeum
Nematoceras rivularis becomes Nematoceras rivulare

Nematoceras papa and Nematoceras iridescens are not affected.

 




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)).

 



CZECH MEN FINED FOR TRYING TO SMUGGLE NATIVE ORCHIDS OUT OF NZ

27th February 2004
From NZ Herald NZPA

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.

 



2 NEW GREENHOOD SPECIES HAVE RECENTLY BEEN NAMED:

Pterostylis silvicultrix is the new name for the orchid we have called Pterostylis banksii var. silvicultrix -
a species found only on the Chatham Islands.

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:


SPIDER ORCHIDS

Corybas has been split into several new genera... 5 of which apply to New Zealand.

The new genera are:
Corybas - Molloybas - Nematoceras - Singularybas - Anzybas

Corybas cheesemanii remains the same.
Corybas cryptanthus becomes Molloybas cryptanthus.
Corybas oblongus becomes Singularybas oblongus.
Corybas carsei and rotundifolius become Anzybas carsei and rotundifolius.
The remaining Spider Orchids now become Nematoceras (eg Nematoceras macrantha).


LEEK ORCHIDS


The 2 NZ species of Genoplesium are now Corunastylis.
Corunastylis nuda and Corunastylis pumila


EPIPHYTIC ORCHIDS


Bulbophyllum tuberculatum is now Adelopetalum tuberculatum.
Bulbophyllum pygmaeum is now Ichthyostomum pygmaeum.

 



MYRMECHILA TRAPEZIFORMIS DISCOVERED

In September 2001 the Australian orchid Myrmechila trapeziformis was found growing beneath
a 25-year-old pine plantation near Levin... 17 colonies have been located thus far.

Specimens have been transplanted into the Native Orchid Reserve near Taupo where they are
increasing vegetatively. The Australian pollinator wasp is not present in New Zealand, so the
flowers are not pollinated and therefore don't produce any seeds.

This species is obviously a Trans-Tasman vagrant, so we will need to be on the lookout for any
new colonies.