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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Orchidaceae
Caleana

Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 329 (1810).

Derivation: After G. Caley, a collector of N.S.W. plants.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Terrestrial glabrous slender herbs, with an oval or elongated tuber; leaf solitary, radical, narrow-lanceolate.

Flowers usually 1-3 on slender pedicels; flowers not resupinate; perianth-segments linear; the dorsal sepal slightly incurved behind the column; the lateral ones spreading or reflexed; the petals erect against the side of the column; labellum placed above the column, articulate on a movable claw with the base or foot of the column; the lamina peltate, ovate, its surface convex, smooth; column elongated, appressed to the ovary, its margins broadly winged throughout their length; anther valvate, 2-celled, a pair of pollen-masses in each cell; pollen granular; caudicle and viscid disk absent.

Distribution:  Monotypic and endemic to Australia.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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