Английская Википедия:Genoplesium alticola

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Genoplesium alticola, commonly known as the tableland midge orchid, is a small terrestrial orchid endemic to Queensland. It has a single thin leaf fused to the flowering stem and up to twenty five small, hairy, dark purplish-red and green flowers. It grows in two small areas of the state at altitudes between Шаблон:Convert.

Description

Genoplesium alticola is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and a single thin leaf Шаблон:Convert long and fused to the flowering stem with the free part Шаблон:Convert long. Between ten and twenty five dark purplish-red and green flowers are well spaced along a flowering stem Шаблон:Convert tall but lower than the leaf. The flowers are Шаблон:Convert long, about Шаблон:Convert wide and are inverted so that the labellum is above the column rather than below it. The dorsal sepal is egg-shaped, about Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide with darker edges and three lines along its centre. The edges of the dorsal sepal have short, dark hairs. The lateral sepals are linear to lance-shaped, dark purplish red, about Шаблон:Convert long, Шаблон:Convert wide and spread widely apart from each other. The petals are a broad egg-shape, dark purplish red with marking similar to those on the dorsal sepal and are about Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide densely hairy edges. The labellum is elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, about Шаблон:Convert long, Шаблон:Convert wide, with short, coarse hairs on the sides. There is an oblong callus in the centre of the labellum and covering about half of its surface. Flowering occurs between December and February.[1][2]

Taxonomy and naming

Genoplesium alticola was first formally described in 1991 by David Jones from a specimen collected near Danbulla and the description was published in Australian Orchid Research.[3] The specific epithet (alticola) is derived from the Latin words altus meaning "high" [4]Шаблон:Rp and cola meaning "dweller",[4]Шаблон:Rp referring to the plant's relatively high altitude habitat.[1]

Distribution and habitat

Genoplesium alticola grows in sparse forest, often in grass tussocks on ridges on higher places. It is only known from the Atherton Tableland near Heberton and on Walshs Pyramid.[1][2]

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