!Genoplesium baueri R.Br. 1810 Photo by © Mischa and Colin Rowan and theirRetired Aussies Orchid Photo Website

In situ New South Wales Photo by © The Nature of Robertson Website

LATER EARLIER

Common Name Bauer's Genoplesium - In Australia The Brittle Midge Orchid

Flower Size .32 to .44" [8 to 11 mm]

Found in New South Wales Australia in open forest and shrubby forests at elevations of sealevel to 150 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a single, stem clasping, free part .4 to .8" long leaf ending below the flowers that blooms in the later summer through earlier fall on an erect, .4 to 1" [1 to 2.5 cm] long, 5 to 35 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Prasophyllum baueri (R.Br.) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck 1816; Prasophyllum deanianum Fitzg. 1888

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Australia Nichols 1969 as Prasophyllum baueri drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo good

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