Spider orchid - Corybas hatchii
Identification and description by Mark Moorhouse:
"It differs from C. iridescens in that the latter has a small callus in the throat and the labellum bib is blackish red on most of its surface. The freckled bib with pale background is a 'quick ID' for C. hatchii.
Distribution lower North Island, rather favouring the east, Nelson, Marlborough, West Coast and Fiordland, but rather sparse over much of that territory. The newly described C. hatchii [was Nematoceras longipetalum] is similar and easily muddled where the two are sympatric [Northern end of West Coast].
Spider orchid (Corybas hatchii). Mount Cargill, Dunedin.
DunedinWildlifeBethunes GullyCorybasFloraMount CargillNew ZealandOtagoorchidspider orchidCorybas hatchii
Spider orchid (Corybas hatchii). Mount Cargill, Dunedin.
DunedinWildlifeBethunes GullyCorybasFloraMount CargillNew ZealandOtagoorchidspider orchidCorybas hatchii
Spider orchid (Corybas hatchii). Mount Cargill, Dunedin.
DunedinWildlifeBethunes GullyCorybasFloraMount CargillNew ZealandOtagoorchidspider orchidCorybas hatchii
Spider orchid (Corybas hatchii). Mount Cargill, Dunedin.
DunedinWildlifeBethunes GullyCorybasFloraMount CargillNew ZealandOtagoorchidspider orchidCorybas hatchii
Spider orchid (Corybas hatchii). Mount Cargill, Dunedin.
DunedinWildlifeBethunes GullyCorybasFloraMount CargillNew ZealandOtagoorchidspider orchidCorybas hatchii
Spider orchid (Corybas hatchii). Mount Cargill, Dunedin.
DunedinWildlifeBethunes GullyCorybasFloraMount CargillNew ZealandOtagoorchidspider orchidCorybas hatchii
Spider orchid (Corybas hatchii). Mount Cargill, Dunedin.
DunedinWildlifeBethunes GullyCorybasFloraMount CargillNew ZealandOtagoorchidspider orchidCorybas hatchii
Spider orchid (Corybas hatchii). Mount Cargill, Dunedin.
DunedinWildlifeBethunes GullyCorybasFloraMount CargillNew ZealandOtagoorchidspider orchidCorybas hatchii
Spider orchid (Corybas hatchii). Mount Cargill, Dunedin.
DunedinWildlifeBethunes GullyCorybasFloraMount CargillNew ZealandOtagoorchidspider orchidCorybas hatchii
Spider orchid (Corybas hatchii). Mount Cargill, Dunedin.
DunedinWildlifeBethunes GullyCorybasFloraMount CargillNew ZealandOtagoorchidspider orchidCorybas hatchii
Spider orchid (Corybas hatchii). Mount Cargill, Dunedin.
DunedinWildlifeBethunes GullyCorybasFloraMount CargillNew ZealandOtagoorchidspider orchidCorybas hatchii
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