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Purple beard orchid

Calochilus platychilus

Purple beard orchid
Photo: Michael Whitehead, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Native range
SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Calochilus platychilus is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It was first formally described in 2008 by David Jones and the description was published in The Orchadian from a specimen collected on Black Mountain in the A.C.T. The specific epithet (platychilus) is derived from the Ancient Greek words πλατύς (platús) meaning “flat” and cheilos meaning "lip".

Other Calochilus plants

Calochilus ammobius · Wiry beard orchid · Blue beard orchid · Copper Beard Orchid · Pallid beard orchid · Slender beard orchid · Giant beard orchid · Pale beard orchid · Ghostly beard orchid · Imperial beard orchid · Metallic beard orchid · Mountain beard orchid

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calochilus platychilus 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.

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