Английская Википедия:Dipodium elegantulum

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Dipodium elegantulum, commonly known as the elegant hyacinth orchid, is a leafless orchid that is endemic to Queensland. In spring and summer it has up to sixty pale to dark pink flowers with a few darker spots and streaks near the tips, on a tall flowering stem.

Description

Dipodium elegantulum is a tuberous, perennial, saprophytic herb. Between August and December it produces a flowering stem Шаблон:Convert tall bearing between twenty and sixty flowers. The flowers are pale to dark pink with a few darker spots and streaks near the tips and Шаблон:Convert wide. The dorsal sepal is linear to lance-shaped, Шаблон:Convert long, Шаблон:Convert wide and the lateral sepals are a similar shape but slightly longer and narrower. The petals are a similar shape but slightly curved, Шаблон:Convert long, about Шаблон:Convert, free from each other and the sepals. The labellum is dark pink and projects forwards, Шаблон:Convert long, Шаблон:Convert wide with an upturned tip and a narrow central band of mauve hairs up to Шаблон:Convert long.[1][2]

Taxonomy and naming

Dipodium atropurpureum was first formally described in 1991 by David Jones and the description was published in Australian Orchid Research from a specimen collected near Mareeba.[3] The specific epithet (elegantulum) is a Latin word meaning "very fine",[4] referring to the flowers of this orchid.[2]

Distribution and habitat

The elegant hyacinth orchid is widespread in forest and grassy woodland between the Mount Windsor Tableland, the Hervey Range and Charters Towers.[1][2]

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