Chiloglottis diphylla
Chiloglottis diphylla, commonly known as common wasp orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to Australia. It has two broad leaves and a single narrow, greenish brown to reddish flower with a black, insect-like callus covering the upper surface of the labellum.
Description
Chiloglottis diphylla is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with two leaves long and wide. A single greenish brown to reddish flower long and wide is borne on a flowering stem high. The dorsal sepal is spatula-shaped, long and about wide with a glandular tip a further long. The lateral sepals are long, about wide and curve downwards. There is a glandular tip long on the end of each lateral sepal. The petals are oblong, long, about wide and turned strongly downwards. The labellum is diamond-shaped, long and wide with a black, insect-like callus covering most of its upper surface. Flowering occurs from February to May.
Chiloglottis diphylla was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.
Distribution and habitat
Common wasp orchid grows in moist places in shrubby forest on the coast and ranges between Carnarvon Gorge in Queensland and Batemans Bay in New South Wales.