Crepidium flavovirens, commonly known as the green spur orchid,[1] is a plant in the orchid family and is endemic to tropical far North Queensland. It is an evergreen, terrestrial orchid with a fleshy stem, wavy leaves and many yellowish green flowers crowded on a green flowering stem.
Crepidium flavovirens is a terrestrial, evergreen herb which forms loose clumps with up to six fleshy, upright stems NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 and NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 wide. There are between four and ten more or less upright leaves NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long and NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 wide. The leaves are dark green, shiny and asymmetrical. A large number of crowded, yellowish green, non-resupinate flowers and many bracts are crowded along a brittle green flowering stem NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long. The flowers are NaNsigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 long and NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 wide. The dorsal sepals is NaNsigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 long, about 2sigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 wide and turns downward. The lateral sepals are about 4sigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long and 2sigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 wide and spread apart from each other. The petals are a similar length but less than 1sigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 wide and curve downwards. The labellum is horseshoe-shaped, about 5sigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long and wide with between six and eight teeth near its tip. Flowering occurs between January and May.[2] [3]
Crepidium flavovirens was first formally described in 1997 by David Jones and Mark Clements from a specimen collected near Malanda. The description was published in the journal Novon.[4] The specific epithet (flavovirens) is from the Latin words flavus meaning “golden-yellow” or "yellow"[5] and virens meaning "green".
The green spur orchid grows in leaf litter, often on steep slopes near streams in rainforest between Mossman and Tully.