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Arthrochilus latipes
Arthrochilus latipes, commonly known as robust elbow orchid, is a flowering plant in the orchid family (Orchidaceae) and is endemic to the "Top End" of the Northern Territory in Australia. Each plant has from two to four ground-hugging leaves and between three and fifteen flowers during the wet season and the species often forms spreading colonies on sandstone escarpments. Like others in the genus, the flowers are pollinated by a species of thynnid wasp.
Robust elbow orchid is found in the Top End of the Northern Territory, east of Darwin, growing on rocky outcrops and sandstone escarpments, especially in the Kakadu and Litchfield National Parks.
Untidy elbow orchid · Dark elbow orchid · Phoringopsis byrnesii · Swamp elbow orchid · Green truffle orchid · Common elbow orchid · Clubbed elbow orchid · Arthrochilus laevicallus · Glaucous truffle orchid · Montane elbow orchid · Wispy elbow orchid · Rosetted elbow orchid
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arthrochilus latipes by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
