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Chiloglottis chlorantha D.L.Jones
Family Orchidaceae
Chiloglottis chlorantha D.L.Jones APNI*

Description: Terrestrial herb.

Leaves 2.

Flower broad, c. 28 mm across, yellowish green. Dorsal sepal obovate, 17–20 mm long, 6–9 mm wide; osmophore c. 1 mm long. Lateral sepals erect and curved forwards, 14–16 mm long, c. 2 mm wide; osmophore c. 1 mm long. Petals lanceolate, 13–15 mm long, 4.5–6 mm wide, divergent. Labellum cordate, 12–13 mm long, 9–12 mm wide, with c. 12 linear to terete, erect or curved calli on the basal two-thirds, the largest c. 3.5 mm long.


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Flowering: September–November

Distribution and occurrence: Grows on moist, sheltered slopes under shrubs; chiefly from Sydney south to the Budawang Ra.
NSW subdivisions: CC, SC, ?ST
AVH map***

Text by D. L. Jones
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)


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