Calochilus campestris R. Brown 1810 Photo by Cathy Powers and her AUSTRALIAN TERRESTRIAL ORCHID OTHER FLORA & FAUNA BANJORAH Website

Another Flower Angle Photos by Colin Rowanand his Orchid Website

EARLY

Common Name The Meadow Calochilus - In Australia/New Zealand The Copper Beard

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

A small sized, cold growing terrestrial from eastern Australian and New Zealand occuring in open forest and heathland in moist to well-drained soils at elevations of sea level to 500 meters with a robust stem with 1 to 3, green to copper colored, lanceolate, clasping stem bracts carrying a basal, single, large, deeply channeled, thick, triangular in cross section, leaf that flowers in the spring and early summer on a 24" [60 cm] long, robust, 7 to 15 flowered inflorescence with 2 triangular floral bractsbracts.

Synonyms Calochilus australianus F. Muell. 1865; Calochilus cupreus R.S.Rogers 1918; Calochilus saprophyticus R.S.Rogers 1930

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 drawing fide; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 as C saprophyticus drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 drawing column only/photo ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as C saprophyticus; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 10 1987 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 4 1998 photo; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001 photo/drawing fide;Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 5 2005; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 5 2005 as C herbaceus; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo ok; The Native Orchids of New Zealand, A Colour Field Guide Scanlen & St George 2010 as C herbaceus photo fide;

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