Diuris setacea R. Br. 1810 Photos by © Misha Rowan and their Retired Aussies Website

Another Flower Angle Photo byRon Heberle and the Thelymitra Page of The Species Orchid Society of Western Australia

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Common Name The Bristley Diuris [referring to the thin spirally twisted leaves.]

Flower Size 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm]

Found in Western Australia in low heathy scrub on granite outcrops at levations of sealevel to 300 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid with a slender stem with 2 to 3, linear-lanceolate, lower one similar to the leaves bracts and carrying 6 to 10 tufted, filiform, setaceous, spirally twisted leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on an erect, 6 to 12" [125 to 30 cm] long, 2 to 7 flowered inflorecence

SynonymsDiuris setacea var. typica Domin 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 drawing fide; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo good

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