Chiloglottis jeanesii
Chiloglottis jeanesii, commonly known as the mountain bird orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to Victoria. It has two broad leaves and a single green to dark purplish brown flower with shiny black, column-like calli on the labellum.

Description
Chiloglottis jeanesii is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with two elliptic leaves  long and  wide on a petiole  long. A single green to dark purplish brown flower  long and  wide is borne on a flowering stem  high. The dorsal sepal is egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base,  long and  wide. The lateral sepals are narrow linear,  long, about  wide, held horizontally below the labellum and more or less parallel to each other. There is a glandular tip about  long on all three sepals. The petals are narrow lance-shaped but curved,  long, about  wide, spread widely apart from each other and curve upwards. The labellum is egg-shaped to heart-shaped,  long and  wide. About half of the upper surface of the labellum is covered by a callus shiny black, column-like glands up to  long. The column is green to brown with reddish flecks,  long,  wide with broad wings. Flowering from November to January.

Taxonomy and naming
Chiloglottis jeanesii was first formally described in 1997 by David Jones from a specimen collected near Toorongo and the description was publish in Muelleria. The specific epithet (jeanesii) honours the botanist and orchid expert Jeffrey Jeanes.

Distribution and habitat
The mountain bird orchid grows in moist to wet forest in mountainous areas in the Sherbrooke Forest, Baw Baw National Park and Dandenong Ranges National Park.

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Orchids of Victoria (state)
Flora of Victoria (state)
Plants described in 1997