New Taxa Austral. Orch. (Austral. Orchid Res.) 5: 79, 80 (2006) APNI
Threat status:Victoria: endangered (e); listed in Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988
Flowering plant slender, 10–20 cm tall, often in densely crowded tufts of up to 30 plants. Leaves mostly 3–7, linear, 5–10 cm long, in a loose, erect tussock. Flowers 1 or 2, semi-erect to porrect, often not opening widely, bright yellow, with a few short dark striations on the base of the dorsal sepal and sometimes also the labellum; pedicel (excluding ovary) 1–2.5 cm long, very slender, partly enclosed within bract; dorsal sepal obliquely erect or porrect, ovate, 7–12 mm long; lateral sepals obliquely deflexed, usually parallel, linear-oblanceolate, 14–18 mm long, green; petals incurved to spreading, 8–12 mm long, claw green, lamina ovate to ovate-elliptic. Labellum porrect or obliquely deflexed, 10–17 mm long, 3-lobed; lateral lobes small, oblong-cuneate, outer margins toothed; mid-lobe flat or shallowly concave, c. 3 times as long as the lateral lobes, ovate to broadly ovate, narrowed at base, with 2 widely separated, pubescent, longitudinal ridges extending shortly beyond base, a single, less distinct ridge continuing nearly to apex. Column wings about same height as anther. Flowers Sep.–Oct.
DunT, GGr, VVP, Wim. Extremely rare, mostly on basalt plains grasslands of western Victoria.
This endangered species has lost most of its habitat to farming and agriculture.
|Bioregion||Occurrence status||Establishment means|
|Victorian Volcanic Plain||present||native|