Nematoceras “rest area” is so named because it was first found by Bruce Irwin at the Oturere rest area by the Desert Road. It is one of the N. rivularis aggregate with the single rounded leaves. We thought the colony in the swampy ground had been wiped out by ash falls from Ruapehu but there is a residual population on the banks of the Oturere Stream and more at the Paramanawera Wetland near Rangataua, where this one was taken for the Type Specimen. It has still not been formally described. The shots were taken on 5/11/1997. The upright dorsal sepal is almost unique in Nematoceras but it is only seen on robust plants in ideal conditions. Often this sepal is extended more or less horizontally over the column in the base of the labellum.
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