Corunastylis Brachystachya
''Genoplesium brachystachyum'', commonly known as the Rocky Cape midge orchid or short-spike midge orchid, is a species of small terrestrial orchid Endemism, endemic to Tasmania. It has a single thin leaf fused to the flowering stem and up to twelve small, green to brownish green, and reddish flowers. It usually grows in heath in rocky places near the coast. Description ''Genoplesium brachystachyum'' is a terrestrial, Perennial plant, perennial, deciduous, Herbaceous plant, herb with an underground tuber and a single thin green leaf with a reddish base and long, fused to the flowering stem with the free part long. Between three and twelve green to brownish green flowers are arranged along a flowering stem tall and taller than the leaf. The flowers lean downwards and are about long and wide. As with others in the genus, the flowers are inverted so that the Labellum (botany), labellum is above the Column (botany), column rather than below it. The wikt:dorsal, dorsal sepal is r ...
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John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Early years Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden. Although he had great horticultural knowledge, the undertaking was not profitable and George lived in a state of indebtedness. As a boy he would assist in the garden and also collected wild flowers he found growing in the Norfolk countryside. Lindley was educated at Norwich School. He would have liked to go to university or to buy a commission in the army but the family could not afford either. He became Belgian agent for a London seed merchant in 1815. At this time Lindley became acquainted with the botanist William Jackson Hooker who allowed him to use his botanical library and who introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks who offered him employment as an assistant in his herba ...
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