Английская Википедия:Crepidium flavovirens
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Crepidium flavovirens, commonly known as the green spur orchid,[1] is a plant in the orchid family and is endemic to tropical far North Queensland. It is an evergreen, terrestrial orchid with a fleshy stem, wavy leaves and many yellowish green flowers crowded on a green flowering stem.
Description
Crepidium flavovirens is a terrestrial, evergreen herb which forms loose clumps with up to six fleshy, upright stems Шаблон:Convert and Шаблон:Convert wide. There are between four and ten more or less upright leaves Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. The leaves are dark green, shiny and asymmetrical. A large number of crowded, yellowish green, non-resupinate flowers and many bracts are crowded along a brittle green flowering stem Шаблон:Convert long. The flowers are Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. The dorsal sepals is Шаблон:Convert long, about Шаблон:Convert wide and turns downward. The lateral sepals are about Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide and spread apart from each other. The petals are a similar length but less than Шаблон:Convert wide and curve downwards. The labellum is horseshoe-shaped, about Шаблон:Convert long and wide with between six and eight teeth near its tip. Flowering occurs between January and May.[1][2][3]
Taxonomy and naming
Crepidium flavovirens was first formally described in 1997 by David Jones and Mark Clements from a specimen collected near Malanda. The description was published in the journal Novon.[4] The specific epithet (flavovirens) is from the Latin words flavus meaning “golden-yellow” or "yellow"[5]Шаблон:Rp and virens meaning "green".[5]Шаблон:Rp
Distribution and habitat
The green spur orchid grows in leaf litter, often on steep slopes near streams in rainforest between Mossman and Tully.[1][3]
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