Английская Википедия:Caladenia amnicola

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Caladenia amnicola, commonly known as the Bundarra spider orchid is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to a small area in New South Wales. It has a single leaf and usually only one greenish-yellow flower with red markings and is only known from a single population.

Description

Caladenia amnicola is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and which has a single leaf, Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. Usually only a single flower is borne on a stalk Шаблон:Convert tall. The flower is green or greenish-yellow with red lines and is Шаблон:Convert wide. The dorsal sepal is erect, Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide while the lateral sepals are a similar size but spread widely with their ends turned downwards. The petals are Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. The sepals and petals narrow to a thread-like end covered with glandular hairs for Шаблон:Convert. The labellum is dark green with a maroon tip, Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. The labellum curves forward and downwards and there are four to seven pairs of thin teeth up to Шаблон:Convert long on its sides. The mid-line of the labellum has four to six rows of crowded reddish calli. Flowering occurs from November to January.[1]

Taxonomy and naming

Caladenia amnicola was first formally described by David L. Jones in 1997 and the description was published in The Orchadian from a specimen collected Шаблон:Convert west of Armidale near the road to Bundarra.[2] The specific epithet (amnicola) is a Latin word meaning "inhabitant of or by a river".[3]

Distribution and habitat

Bundarra spider orchid is only known from a single population at the type location. It grows in a layer of dense, low shrubs near a forest stream.[1]

Conservation

Caladenia amnicola is listed as "2KV"[4] in the ROTAP classification meaning that it is vulnerable and poorly known from a restricted distribution.[5]

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