Chiloglottis truncata
Chiloglottis truncata, commonly known as the small ant orchid, is a small species of orchid endemic to Queensland. It has two leaves and a single green flower with a shiny black, insect-like callus occupying most of the labellum.
Description
Chiloglottis truncata is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with two leaves long and wide. A single green flower long and wide is borne on a flowering stem high. The dorsal sepal is long and wide. The lateral sepals are long, about wide and curve downwards. There is a glandular tip about long on all three sepals. The petals are about long, wide and turn downwards towards the ovary. The labellum is trowel-shaped, long and about wide with a square-cut tip and a narrow, shiny black, insect-like callus extending to its tip. Flowering occurs from July to September.
Chiloglottis truncata was first formally described in 1987 by David L. [Jones (botanist)|David Jones] and Mark Clements from a specimen collected at Anduramba and the description was published in Proceedings of the [Royal Society of Queensland]. The specific epithet is a Latin word meaning "shorten by cutting off".
Distribution and habitat
The small ant orchid grows in forest and woodland between Kingaroy and Toowoomba.