Caladenia atrovespa
Caladenia atrovespa, commonly known as the thin-clubbed mantis orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and a single hairy leaf. The species was first formally described by David Jones in 2008 and given the name Arachnorchis atrovespa from a specimen collected on Black Mountain in the Australian Capital Territory. The description was published in The Orchadian.[2] In 2010, Gary Backhouse changed the name to Caladenia atrovespa.[1] The specific epithet (atrovespa) is derived from the Latin words atra meaning "black"[3]: 148 and vespa meaning "wasp".[3]: 835
| Thin-clubbed mantis orchid | |
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| Caladenia atrovespa growing on Black Mountain in the A.C.T. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Orchidoideae |
| Tribe: | Diurideae |
| Genus: | Caladenia |
| Species: | C. atrochila |
| Binomial name | |
| Caladenia atrochila | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Arachnorchis atrovespa (D.L.Jones) D.L.Jones & G.N.Backh. | |
References
- "Caladenia atrovespa". APNI. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- "Arachnorchis atrovespa". APNI. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
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