Английская Википедия:Caladenia hopperiana

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Caladenia hopperiana is a species of orchid endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has a single leaf and up to four creamy-yellow flowers with faint red markings.

Description

Caladenia hopperiana is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and which sometimes grows in clumps. It has a single, erect, pale green leaf, Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide with reddish-purple blotches near its base. Up to four creamy-yellow flowers with faint red markings Шаблон:Convert in diameter are borne on a stalk Шаблон:Convert tall. The sepals and petals are linear to lance-shaped for about half their length then suddenly narrow to thread-like, densely glandular ends. The dorsal sepal is erect but curves forward, Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. The lateral sepals are Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide and spread horizontally near their bases but then drooping and sometimes crossing each other. The petals are Шаблон:Convert long and about Шаблон:Convert wide and hanging like the lateral sepals. The labellum is Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide and white with the tip rolled under. The sides of the labellum have short, blunt, forward-facing, white to deep brown teeth, decreasing in size towards the front of the labellum. There are four or six rows of glossy red hockey stick-shaped calli up to Шаблон:Convert long along the centre line of the labellum for about half its length. Flowering occurs from September to October.[1]

Taxonomy and naming

Caladenia hopperiana was first described in 2001 by Andrew Brown and Garry Brockman from a specimen collected near Quindanning and the description was published in Nuytsia.[2] The specific epithet (hopperiana) honours the Western Australian botanist, Stephen Hopper.[2][1]

Distribution and habitat

This caladenia is only known from the Qunidanning district in the Jarrah Forest biogeographic region where it grows in woodland near creeks and swamps.[1][3]

Conservation

Caladenia hopperiana is classified as "Threatened Flora (Declared Rare Flora — Extant)" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.[3]

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