Calochilus imberbis
R.S.Rogers Naked Beard-orchidFlowering plant 22–45 cm tall, stout. Leaf linear-lanceolate, 15–40 cm long, usually shorter than raceme, keeled, somewhat fleshy. Stem bracts 1–3. Flowers green and purple, 1–4; subtending bract oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, tapering to fine point, shorter or longer than flower; pedicel (excluding ovary) 1–2 cm long; dorsal sepal erect, broadly ovate, c. 15 mm long, slightly hooded, acute; lateral sepals ovate, as long as dorsal sepal but narrower, divergent, spreading below or at side of labellum; petals spreading, ovate, slightly asymmetric, about half as long as sepals, yellowish with dark markings. Labellum ovate, 11–15 mm long, resembling-sepals, margins entire, concave and incurved, with conspicuous purplish nerves; glands, papillae and hairs absent. Column short, widely winged, with a purple gland at the base of each wing, the glands connected by a ridge.
VVP, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, NIS, EGL, HSF, OtR, VAlp. Also SA, NSW, Tas. Flowers Oct.-Dec.
Coextensive with C. robertsonii but much rarer and occurring as odd individuals within populations of that species. Possibly merely a peloric form of C. robertsonii in which the labellum remains undifferentiated.
Entwisle, T.J. (1994). Orchidaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 740–901. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
