Calochilus platychilus
Purple Beard Orchid
Purple Beard Orchid
(Black Mountain, Oct 2022)
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Common name: Purple Beard Orchid
Conservation status: unknown
Etymology:
The specific epithet (platychilus) is derived from the Ancient Greek words πλατύς (platús) meaning “flat” and cheilos meaning "lip"
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It is a plant in the orchid family
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Distribution:
Endemic to NSW
Additional notes:
It was first formally described in 2008 by David Jones and the description was published in The Orchadian from a specimen collected on Black Mountain in the ACT
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