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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Orchidaceae
Paracaleana

Citation: D. Blaxell, Contr. N.S. W. natn. Herb. 4:280 (1972).

Derivation: Greek para, similar to; Caleana, another genus of the Orchidaceae.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Terrestrial glabrous slender herbs; leaf solitary, radical, linear.

Flower not resupinate; perianth-segments linear; dorsal sepal and petals attached at the base of the column where it joins to the ovary; labellum situated above the column, articulated on a movable claw as in Caleana, the surface tuberculate; column held at right angles to the ovary; column wings ¤t on the column foot as well as on the column.

Distribution:  2 species limited to Australia and New Zealand; 1 species being common to both.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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