Gastrodia lacista
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Gastrodia lacista is native to South Australia, loose leaf green plants art from the family of the orchid (Orchidaceae). It was first described in 1991 by David Lloyd Jones .
features
Gastrodia lacista is a leafless plant, has given up photosynthesis and therefore no longer produces chlorophyll . Instead, it lives myco-heterotrophically on a fungus . The fleshy, tuber-like rhizome gave the plant its common English name “Potato Orchid” (“Potato Orchid”).
The leafless flower stem is 25 to 50 centimeters high. There are five to thirty tubular, nodding flowers on it , flowering time is from November to early January. The bell-shaped flowers are 10 to 20 millimeters long, around 6 millimeters wide, pale brown on the outside and white on the inside with a yellow throat spot. The petals are slightly thickened at the irregular edges, the labellum is white.
Distribution, habitat, botanical history
The species is native to southwestern Australia on the coast between Bunbury and Albany . It thrives with cool to cold temperatures in sandy loam soils in forests with high levels of precipitation, associated with casuarina plants , Eucalyptus marginata , Eucalyptus diversicolor and Eucalyptus jacksonii .
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- Noel Hoffman, Andrew Brown: Orchids of South-West Australia , University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands 1998, ISBN 1876268182 .