Английская Википедия:Genoplesium apostasioides

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Genoplesium apostasioides, commonly known as the freak midge orchid, is a small terrestrial orchid endemic to New South Wales. It has a single thin leaf fused to the flowering stem and up to fifteen small, yellowish green flowers with a reddish labellum. The flowers do not open widely and are self-pollinating. It grows in heath and shallow moss gardens on rock ledges from the Blue Mountains to Nerriga.

Description

Genoplesium apostasioides 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 three and fifteen yellowish-green flowers are widely spaced along a flowering stem Шаблон:Convert tall and much taller than the leaf. The flowers are Шаблон:Convert long and open erratically, or do not open at all and are self-pollinating. As with others in the genus, the flowers are inverted so that the labellum is above the column rather than below it. The dorsal sepal is lance-shaped to egg-shaped, about Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide with hairy edges. The lateral sepals are linear to lance-shaped, about Шаблон:Convert long, Шаблон:Convert wide, more or less parallel to each other and sometimes have a gland on the tip. The petals are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, about Шаблон:Convert long, Шаблон:Convert wide with hairy edges and a sharply pointed tip. The labellum is reddish, about Шаблон:Convert long, Шаблон:Convert wide, with hairy edges and a sharply pointed tip. There is a callus in the centre of the labellum and extending nearly to its tip. Flowering occurs from December to April.[1][2]

Taxonomy and naming

The freak midge orchid was first formally described in 1888 by Robert D. FitzGerald who gave it the name Corunastylis apostasioides from a specimen collected near Berrima, and published the description in his book Australian Orchids.[3] In 1989, David Jones and Mark Alwin Clements changed the name to Genoplesium apostasioides.[4]

Distribution and habitat

Genoplesium apostasioides grows in forest and in moss gardens on rock shelves, on the tablelands between the Blue Mountains and Nerriga.[1][2]

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