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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Gastrodia minor Petrie, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 25: 273 (1892 [1893])
Description
Plant at fl. c. 8–30–(40) cm. tall. Swollen rhizomes extensively branched, individual parts to 4 × 1 cm. Stem us. slender. Scale lvs very few, small and widely spaced. Fls us. < 10, sts erect, apparently sts cleistogamic. Per. c. 10 mm. long, brownish; lobes slightly thickened marginally. Lateral sepals connate little above the gibbous base, but their margins lying close together. Labellum narrow-oblong, long-adnate to per.-tube; long median calli rather simple; margin narrow and little undulate, thickened distally. Column very short, wing represented only by a minute erect process; anther short, operculate, filament scarcely pleated at back; stigma immediately below anther.
[From: Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Dec.–Jan.–(Mar.)
Bibliography
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]
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.
Petrie, D. 1893 ("1892"): Description of a New Genus and of New Species of Native Plants, etc. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 25: 269–275.
