Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asparagales Link
Family
Orchidaceae Juss.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Adenochilus Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 246, t. 56 A (1853)
Type Taxon:
Adenochilus gracilis Hook.f.
 Description

Fl. us. solitary; floral bracts us. 2–3, small. Per. glandular-pubescent; dorsal sepal uppermost, concave, adnate to column near base and ± arched over it; lateral sepals and petals longer, narrower, subsimilar. Labellum shortly clawed, half-erect; disc broad-oblong, mid-lobe narrow and recurved; calli stipitate and rounded, in longitudinal rows extending inwards from broader part of mid-lobe. Column elongate, ± curved, winged throughout, the wings produced upwards in ± toothed lobes above the anther; anther terminal, incurved, pollinia mealy; stigma prominent, inclined downwards, rostellum 2-lobed. Plants terrestrial, slender, glab.; tubers absent; rhizome fleshy, branched. Lf solitary, petiolate from rhizome, sessile on flowering stem; lamina short and broad, length rarely 2 × width. Includes, besides the type sp. , which is endemic to N.Z., 1 Australian sp.

[From: Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Adenochilus Hook.f.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)1
Total1
 Bibliography
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.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.