Spider Orchid
Nematoceras trilobum
Okoia - Wanganui
Photo: Michael Pratt
Flowers September - November
Large, dark coloured, & later flowering.
Edge of the labellum smooth.
Lateral sepals very long and erect.

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Spider Orchid
Nematoceras aff trilobum
Okoia - Wanganui
Photo: Michael Pratt
Flowers August - December
Common throughout New Zealand in
forests and scrub. Extremely variable
in flower form and colouring.

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Spider Orchid
Nematoceras "craigielea"
Wairarapa
Photo: Eric Scanlen
Flowers September - October
A tiny taxon of the N. trilobum agg.
Found in wet soil by a small stream
in the Wairarapa.

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Spider Orchid
Nematoceras "darkie"
Dip Flat - Upper Wairau River
Photo: Eric Scanlen
Flowers November
A dark red taxon of the N. trilobum
aggregate. Known only from Dip Flat,
Upper Wairau, Marlborough.

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Spider Orchid
Nematoceras hypogaeum
Photo: Ian St George
Flowers August - September
A small species from the N. trilobum
group. Flower often hidden beneath
the leaf litter. Edges of the labellum
jagged and incurved.

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Spider Orchid
Nematoceras "pygmy"
Photo: Eric Scanlen
Flowers Late May - July
A small taxon of the N. trilobum agg.
with the node at the sheathing bract.
An early flowering form that flowers
from late May to mid July.

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Spider Orchid
Nematoceras "Rimutaka"
Photo: Eric Scanlen
Flowers October
An un-named taxon of the N trilobum
aggregate. Labellum opening oval
& dark crimson. Dorsal sepal ridged
with a sharp tip.

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Spider Orchid
Nematoceras "round leaf"
Photo: Eric Scanlen
Flowers October - December
Flowers resembles those of the
N. trilobum agg, but the leaf is similar
to those of the N. rivulare aggregate.
Flowers can vary between colonies.

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Grooved Helmet Orchid
Nematoceras aff sulcatum
Tuku-a-Tamatea Nature Reserve
Photo: Peter B Heenan
Flowers September - November
A species from the Chatham Islands.
Flowers red, with a deeply grooved
cream to pale yellow labellum.

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Spider Orchid
Nematoceras "trisept"
Hunua Ranges
Photo: Eric Scanlen
Flowers September
A taxon from the Hunua Ranges.
Labellum deep maroon, ragged around
a deep cleft in the bib with no apiculus.

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Spider Orchid
Nematoceras "triwhite"
Ngatoro Walk - Mt Taranaki
Photo: Eric Scanlen
Flowers October - November
A pale coloured taxon of the N. trilobum
aggregate. Found in montane and
sub-alpine locations.

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