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Native jade orchid

Goodyera umbrosa

Native jade orchid
Photo: Justin McMahon https://www.inaturalist.org/people/wurruma, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Native range
Queensland
Climate
subtropical

About

Goodyera umbrosa, commonly known as the native jade orchid or green jewel orchid, is a species of orchid that is endemic to northern Queensland where it grows in highland rainforest. It has between four and eight large, egg-shaped leaves and up to ten small pale green or pinkish flowers with the dorsal sepal and petals forming a hood over the column.

Where it grows

Goodyera umbrosa usually grows in leaf litter and in rock crevices in rainforest between Mount Finnigan in Cedar Bay National Park and Mount Fox near Ingham.

Other Goodyera plants

Western rattlesnake plantain · Bottlebrush Orchid · Downy rattlesnake plantain · Dwarf rattlesnake plantain (America) · Giant jewel orchid · Checkered rattlesnake plantain · Goodyera yunnanensis · Rattlesnake plantain

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Goodyera umbrosa 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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