Английская Википедия:Arthrochilus sabulosus

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Speciesbox Arthrochilus sabulosus, commonly known as the spotted elbow orchid,[1] is a flowering plant in the orchid family (Orchidaceae) and is endemic to Tropical North Queensland and Horn Island. It has a rosette of dull green leaves on side growth at its base and up to fifteen pale green, insect-like flowers with reddish to brownish glands on its labellum.

Description

Arthrochilus sabulosus is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, sympodial herb with an underground tuber that produces daughter tubers on the end of root-like stolons. It has a rosette of between two and three egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves on side growth at the base of the flowering stem, each leaf Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. Between three and fifteen pale green, insect-like flowers Шаблон:Convert long are borne on a flowering stem Шаблон:Convert tall. The dorsal sepal is linear but tapered, Шаблон:Convert long, about Шаблон:Convert wide and partly wrapped around the base of the column. The lateral sepals are lance-shaped but curved, Шаблон:Convert long and about Шаблон:Convert wide. The petals are also linear and curved, Шаблон:Convert long and about Шаблон:Convert wide. The lateral sepals and petals are turned back against the ovary. The labellum is green with a dark purplish blotch at its base, about Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide on a short stalk or "claw". There is an insect-like callus about Шаблон:Convert long with reddish brown, hair-like glands in a central band. The tip of the callus is about Шаблон:Convert wide and brownish with shiny black glands. The column is about Шаблон:Convert, curved, light green with a few purplish spots and has two pairs of curved wings. Flowering occurs from November to July.[1][2][3]

Taxonomy and naming

Arthrochilus sabulosus was first formally described in 1991 by David Jones from a specimen collected on Horn Island. The description was published in Australian Orchid Research.[4] The specific epithet (sabulosus) is a Latin word meaning "full of sand" or "sandy",[5] referring to the sandy places where this orchid tends to grow.[2]

Distribution and habitat

The spotted elbow orchid grows in sand dunes with scrub vegetation. It is found on the northern part of the Cape York Peninsula and on Horn Island in the Torres Strait.[1][2][3]

Ecology

As with other Arthrochilus orchids, A. sabulosus is pollinated by male thynnid wasps of the genus Arthrothynnus although the species involved is not known. It also reproduces asexually by producing new tubers.[6]

References

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