Burnettia
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Origin
Native
Degree of establishment
Native
Terrestrial glabrous herbs, arising from rounded tubers. Leaves reduced to sheathing bracts along elongate flowering stem. Flowers with column uppermost, petals and sepals thickish; dorsal sepal broad, erect; lateral sepals and petals similar, but more or less spreading. Labellum shorter than sepals and petals, obscurely 3-lobed, incurved, fleshy, with distal margin irregular. Column incurved, broadly winged.
1 species only, restricted to south-eastern Australia.
Source:
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.

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Burnettia