!Cryptostylis erecta R.Br. 1810
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Photo by Greg Steenbeeke
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Common Name The Erect Cryptostylis - In Australia The Bonnet Orchid
Flower Size 1 to 2" [2.5 to 5 cm]
Found in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria Australia at elevations of sea level to 600 meters in rainforests, wet and drier forests and heathlands among grasses, sedges and low shrubs as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem with basal, narrowly lanceolate to ovate, leathery, dark green above, purple below, narrowing below into the elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter through early fall on an erect, 12 to 32" [30 to 80 cm] long, 2 to 12 flowered inflorescence
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001 drawing fide; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #6 2011 photo fide;
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