Diuris carinata Lindl. 1840

Another Color Form? Photos by Ron Heberle and the Thelymitra Page of The Species Orchid Society of Western Australia

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Common Name The Keeled Diuris - The Tall Bee Orchid

Flower Size .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm]

Found in Western Australia at elevations of sea level to 250 meters in low lying swamps and seepage areas often partially immersed, as a medium to large sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid with a very slender stem with 2 to 3, lowest similar to the leaves, those above smallercarrying 2 to 6, narrowly linear to filiform leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on an erect, 20" to 32" [50 to 80 cm] long, 1 to 7 flowered inflorescence

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

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