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Cryptostylis hunteriana Nicholls
Family Orchidaceae
Common name: Leafless Tongue-orchid, Leafless Tongue Orchid

Cryptostylis hunteriana Nicholls APNI*

Description: Saprophytic terrestrial herb.

Leaves absent.

Inflorescences erect 15–45 cm long, 5–10-flowered. Sepals linear 18–22 mm long, green. Labellum narrow-spathulate, 22–33 mm long, 6–7 mm wide, erect, margins recurved, upper surface conspicuously hairy, lower surface glabrous, maroon at the tip and along the margins, with a wide central longitudinal black band becoming 4 black lines towards the base, green basally. Column wings almost connected behind the anther, with glandular fringed margins.


Flowering: December–February

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in swamp-heath on sandy soils, chiefly in coastal districts, south from the Gibraltar Ra.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT
Other Australian states: Vic.
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Vulnerable; Commonwealth EPBC: Vulnerable
AVH map***

Text by P. H. Weston
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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