Pterostylis truncata Fitzg. 1878 SECTION Diplodium Photo by John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Another Angle Photo by Cathy Powers and her AUSTRALIAN TERRESTRIAL ORCHIDS OTHER FLORA & FAUNA BANJORAH
Plant colony of 20 or so flowers in situ Photos by Colin Rowan and his Orchid Website
Common Name The Truncated Pterostylis - In Australia The Brittle Greenhood - Little Dumpy
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
This miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial species is from New South Wales and Victoria at elevations of 10 to 1000 meters occuring in grassland, shrubby forest and woodland in well-drained soils with a globose tuber giving rise to an erect stem carying several, ovate, acute, bright green, flat, petiolate base leaves in a basal rosette and blooms on an erect, 6" [15 cm] tall, single flowered inflorescence occuring in the summer and fall after the summer rains.
Synonyms Diplodium truncatum ( Fitzg. ) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2002
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 1966; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 8 1997 photo fide; Orchids of Australia Riley & Banks 2002; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Diplodium truncatum photo fide
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