Nervilia concolor

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Tall shield orchid
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Nervilia concolor in the Tsukuba Botanical Garden
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Nervilia
Species:
N. concolor
Binomial name
Nervilia concolor
Synonyms [1]
List
    • Cordyla concolorBlume
    • Pogonia concolor(Blume) Blume
    • Roptrostemon concolor(Blume) Lindl.
    • Aplostellis flabelliformis(Lindl.) Ridl.
    • Epipactis carinata Roxb.
    • Nervilia aragoana Gaudich.
    • Nervilia carinata(Roxb.) Schltr.
    • Nervilia flabelliformis(Lindl.) Tang & F.T.Wang
    • Nervilia scottii(Rchb.f.) Schltr.
    • Nervilia tibetensis Rolfe
    • Nervilia yaeyamensis Hayata
    • Pogonia carinata(Roxb.) Lindl.
    • Pogonia flabelliformisLindl.)
    • Pogonia gracilisBlume )
    • Pogonia nerviliaBlume
    • Pogonia scottii Rchb.f.

Nervilia concolor, commonly known as tall shield orchid, [2] and to as Nervilia aragoana in Australia, [3] is a small terrestrial orchid found in South Asia and Southeast Asia and in the northern regions of Australia. It has pale green, short-lived flowers with a cream-colored or yellowish labellum and a more or less circular leaf that emerges at the base of the flowering stem after flowering.

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Illustration by Lewis Roberts

Description

Nervilia concolor is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, sympodial herb which grows in colonies with only a few individuals producing flowers in any one year. Between two and six pale green flowers 35–40 mm (1–2 in) long and 30–35 mm (1.2–1.4 in) wide are borne on an erect flowering stem 200–350 mm (8–10 in) tall. The sepals are 17–24 mm (0.7–0.9 in) long and about 2 mm (0.08 in) wide and the petals are similar but slightly shorter. The labellum has three lobes and is cream-coloured or yellowish with hairy purple or green veins. The side lobes curl inwards and the middle lobe has wavy edges and three hairy ridges. The flowers only last up to four days, following which a single leaf develops, including on those plants that did not flower. The leaf is bright green, heart-shaped or kidney-shaped but appears almost circular, 150–250 mm (6–10 in) in diameter with wavy edges and prominent radiating veins. In Australia, flowering occurs between September and December after heavy rain but in areas north of the equator in April and May. [2] [4] [5]

Taxonomy and naming

The tall shield orchid was first formally described in 1825 by Carl Ludwig Blume who gave it the name Cordyla concolor and published the description in Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië . [1] [6] In 1911 Rudolf Schlechter transferred the species to Nervilia as N. concolor in Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie . [7] The specific epithet (concolor) is a Latin word meaning "coloured uniformly". [8]

In Australia the species is known as Nervilia aragoana, first described in 1827 by Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré. [9]

The species is known by a variety of vernacular names in Asia:

Distribution and habitat

Nervilia concolor occurs in Nepal, Bhutan, eastern India, Myanmar, Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, southern Japan, Thailand, the Malaysian region, the Pacific Islands, Queensland and the Northern Territory. It grows in forest, rainforest and monsoonal rainforest. [2] [10]

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References

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