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Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Thelymitra pulchella Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 244 (1853)
Synonymy:
- = Thelymitra concinna Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 20: 207 (1887 [1888])
- = Thelymitra fimbriata Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 22: 490 (1889 [1890])
- = Thelymitra pachyphylla Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 1151 (1906)
- = Thelymitra caesia Petrie, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 107 (1919)
Vernacular Name(s):
Māika; Māikaika; Māmāika
Description
Plant at fl. 15–60 cm. tall. Stem stout, often > 3 mm. diam. Lf 6–10–20) mm. wide, channelled, thick and heavy. Infl. often > 6-fld. Per. 12–17 mm. long, us. between blue and pink with strong blue stripes, sts white with blue stripes, occ. clear pink overall. Sepels and petals sub-similar, rather broadly ovate, lateral sepals narrowest. Labellum distinctly more obovate. Column-arms us. higher than anther, flat, reddish, variously elaborated within one population of plants or even within one raceme; commonly the margins are thin, near the base red, toothed or even lobed (anteriorly or posteriorly or both), the upper teeth stretching out into branched fimbriae, also red, which gradually give way to much finer yellow fimbriae extending to the top of the arm; proportions of red to yellow, of teeth to fimbriae, of plain to ornamented margin seem quite unfixed, the simplest arm being short and thick with only a few small tufts of reddish hairs; post-anther lobe also variable, rarely taller than anther, its margin variously thickened or sts incurved or irregularly denticulate, us. dark reddish in its upper part and often edged with yellow, occ. ± tuberculate.
[From: Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: (Oct.)–Nov.–Dec.–(Jan.)
Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
Colenso, W. 1888: On new Phænogamic plants of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 20: 188–211.
Colenso, W. 1890: A description of some newly-discovered Phænogamic plants, being a further contribution towards the making-known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 22: 459–493.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Hatch, E.D. 1952: The New Zealand Forms of Thelymitra J. R. and G. Forster and Appendices. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 79: 386–402.
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Parsons, M.J.; Douglass, P.; Macmillan, B.H. 1998: Current Names List for wild Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons (except Grasses) of New Zealand as used in Herbarium CHR. Version 1, to 31 Dec 1995. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand.
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