Diuris venosa Rupp 1926 Photo by © Colin Rowan and their Retired Aussies Website
Another Flower Color in situ Photos by Greg Steenbeeke
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Common Name The Veined Diuris The Goat Orchid - Veined Doubletail
Flower Size .65 to 1" [1.8 to 2.5 cm]
Found in northeastern New South Wales Australia at elevations of 1100 to 1200 meters on grassy slopes or under eucalypts and in open grasslands and herbfields as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a rather robust, dark purplish-red stem 3 to 5, tufted, straight, rather short leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer on an erect, 4 to 16" [40 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescnece
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 1966; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide
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