Common name: Green Bird Orchid
Chiloglottis cornuta Hook.f. APNI* Synonyms: Chiloglottis muelleri Fitzg. APNI*
Description: Terrestrial herb.
Leaves 2.
Flower broad, c. 30 mm across, green with reddish calli on the labellum. Dorsal sepal ovate to lanceolate, 13–15 mm long, 5–8 mm wide; osmophore c. 1 mm long. Lateral sepals erect and curved forwards, 10–13 mm long, c. 1.5 mm wide; osmophore c. 2 mm long. Petals linear to lanceolate, 11–13 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, falcate, divergent. Labellum narrowly cordate, 8–9 mm long, 5–7 mm wide, with 6–8 dark red, terete or flattened calli.
Flowering: December–January
Distribution and occurrence: Known only from near Perisher Gap where it grows in Sphagnum mounds.
NSW subdivisions: ST
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas.
Text by D. L. Jones
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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