Glossodia
Terrestrial herbs, more or less hairy, arising from small underground tubers. Leaf solitary, basal, oblong or lanceolate, emerging from membranous sheath close to ground. Flowers with column uppermost, 1 or 2, blue or purple (rarely white), on erect flowering stem with a sheathing bract at or near the middle and a similar bract under each pedicel; petals and sepals nearly equal, overlapping, spreading. Labellum sessile, undivided, margin entire, lamina without glands, but with 2 (sometimes fused) linear, clubbed calli at base, erect against the column and half to nearly as long as it. Column erect, incurved, 2-winged.
An endemic Australian genus of 2 species, both occurring in Victoria. Pollination by native bees.
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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