Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 325 ( 1810).

Derivation: Greek glossodes, tongue-shaped.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Terrestrial herbs, more or less hairy, growing from small underground tubers; leaf solitary, radical, oblong or lanceolate, from within a scarious sheath close to the ground.

Flowers resupinate, 1 or 2, blue or purple, on an erect scape with a sheathing bract at or near the middle and a similar bract under each pedicel; perianth-segments nearly equal, spreading; labellum sessile, undivided, margin entire, its lamina without glands, calli, or plates, but at its base 2 (sometimes fused) linear clubbed calli or appendages erect against the column and from half to nearly its whole length; column erect, incurved, 2-winged; anther erect, 2-celled, the outer valves broad, the inner much smaller, the connective produced into a small point; pollinia 4, lamellar, unconnected with the rostellum, granular.

Distribution:  2 known species endemic to Australia.

Biology: Pollinated chiefly by native bees. .

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