Английская Википедия:Caladenia parva

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Caladenia parva is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single leaf and one or two green flowers with red stripes along the sepals and petals.

Description

Caladenia parva is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and a single leaf, Шаблон:Convert long, Шаблон:Convert wide and which often has red spots near its base. One or two greenish flowers with red stripes are borne on a spike Шаблон:Convert tall. The sepals have thick, brown, club-like glandular tips Шаблон:Convert long. The dorsal sepal curves forward and is Шаблон:Convert long and about Шаблон:Convert wide. The lateral sepals are Шаблон:Convert long, about Шаблон:Convert wide and are parallel to or sometimes cross over each other. The petals are Шаблон:Convert long, Шаблон:Convert wide and curve downwards. The labellum is greenish with a white central region a dark red tip which curls under. It is Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide and has thin green teeth up to Шаблон:Convert on the sides. There are four rows of reddish-black calli up to Шаблон:Convert long in the centre of the labellum. Flowering occurs in September and October.[1][2][3]

Taxonomy and naming

Caladenia parva was first formally described in 1991 by Geoffrey Carr from a specimen collected in the Dergholm State Park. The description was published in Indigenous Flora and Fauna Association Miscellaneous Paper 1.[4] The specific epithet (parva) is a Latin word meaning "little".[5]

Distribution and habitat

The small spider orchid occurs in scattered locations across southern Victoria and the far south-eastern corner of South Australia where it grows woodland and coastal scrub.[1]

Conservation

Caladenia parva is not listed under the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988.[1]

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