Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
Abundant on lake margin, Patrolling sections of flooded lake shore line in open areas of oioi (Apodasmia similis) and Machaerina arthrophylla.
Locally common - usually as solitary or paired plants (very rarely more) and often in close association with Caladenia chlorostyla. Flower colours variable range from pink through lavender to pinkish-white.
Abundant. Colonial. Often growing with Caladenia variegata, in tarahinau (Dracophyllum arboreum) leaf litter under a dense canopy of tarahinau and mataira (Myrsine chathamica).
Common - often associated with Caladenia chlorostyla. Plants often solitary, rarely more than three seen together.
Common amongst tarahinau (Dracophyllum arboreum) leaf litter within dense tarahinau / mataira (Myrsine chathamica) forest. Colonial, specimens often with two flowers per stem.
Locally common in small colonies of 3-8 plants. Specimens on forest floor in drifts of leaf litter under a dense canopy of tarahinau (Dracophyllum arboreum), mataira (Myrsine chathamica), hikoa karamu (Coprosma chathamica) and wheki ponga (Dicksonia fibrosa).
Flower pale pink (not captured well by camera). Stem green in this example densely eglandular-glandular hairy.
Often found growing with Caladenia chlorostyla.
Common in lawn. Leaves hamate. Out ray florets with dark red apices. Involucral bracts, glabrous - outer dark green, inner glaucous. Stigma covered in pollen.
Common along ecotone between tarahinau (Dracophyllum arboreum) / mataira (Myrsine chathamica) forest and Dracophyllum scoparium / Sporadanthus traversii with hangatere (Macrolearia semidentata) bog.
Part of understorey in open tarahinau (Dracophyllum arboreum) / mataira (Myrsine chathamica) forest above lake.
Cultivated from live plants sampled on 20 August 2022 from Normal Kirk Memorial Gardens.
First flowering of plant. Leaves dark green with midribs dark red near base fading to mottled pink / green in upper portion of leaves. Leaves weakly dimorphic, adaxially sparsely hairy. Capitula with glaucous involucral bracts, outer bracts ciliate. Capitula florets producing little pollen. 2n = 24.