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Cooktownia (Mystery Orchid)

Wikipedia Abstract

Cooktownia is the name of a monotypic genus which has as its sole member Cooktownia robertsii, the mystery orchid, which is a rare ground orchid named in honour of its discoverer, Lewis Roberts, and the fact that it is only found in a very restricted area south of Cooktown, in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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Species

Cooktownia robertsii (Mystery Orchid)

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0