Chiloglottis cornuta Hook.f. 1844 Photo by © David Tng and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Plant and Inflorescence Photos by Colin Rowan and his Retired Aussies Website
EARLY
Common Name The Horned Chiloglottis - Green Bird Orchid
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia usually in mountain areas in closed, shady, wet forests at elevations of 50 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial small ground hugging plant with 2 parellel, veined, green, elliptic leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on an erect, 1 3/5" [4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Caladenia cornuta (Hook.f.) Rchb.f. 1871; Chiloglottis cornuta Hook.f. 1844; Simpliglottis cornuta (Hook.f.) Szlach. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 drawing fide; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Simpliglottis cornuta photo fide; The Native Orchids of New Zealand, A Colour Field Guide Scanlen & St George 2010 photo fide;
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