Type of Flower
Flying Duck Orchid:
Flying Duck Orchid ( Caleana major ), is a little orchid flora inwards eastern too southern Australia.This terrestrial flora features a remarkable flower, resembling a duck inwards flight. The blossom is an attractant to insects, such equally manful individual sawflies which pollinate the blossom inwards a procedure known equally pseudocopulation.In 1986 this orchid was featured on an Australian stamp stamp.
Flying Duck Orchid is encountered equally a terrestrial herb, upward to 50 cm (20 in) tall. 2-4 flowers grow on the light-green stem.The unmarried leaf, appears around the base of operations of the stalk. It is commonly prostrate, narrow-lanceolate, to 12 cm (5 in) long too 8 mm wide, oftentimes spotted.The blossom is reddish-brown, xv to xx mm long. In rare cases, the blossom tin last greenish amongst nighttime spots.The flora is pollinated past times insects. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 sensitive strap is attached to the flower, which is triggered past times vibration. Flowering occurs from September to January.
Occurring from Queensland to South Australia, to fifty-fifty Tasmania,this flora is flora inwards eucalyptus woodland inwards coastal or swampy shrubland too heathland. Mostly around the coast, but occasionally at higher altitudes.Because of the little size, it is a hard flora to honour inwards the wild.
The genus Caleana was named later George Caley, an early on botanical collector.Latin for "larger", major refers to the contrast amongst the other smaller Duck orchid, Paracaleana minor.
The master copy specimen of this flora was collected at Bennelong Point, the introduce solar daytime site of the Sydney Opera House inwards September, 1803.In 1810, the species originally appeared inwards the scientific literature, Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae, authored past times the prolific Scottish botanist, Robert Brown.
Flying Duck Orchid has been hard to hold inwards cultivation. Plants blossom for i or sometimes 2 years but progressively weaken until they die.
