Diuris laevis Fitz. 1882 Photo by © Colin Rowan and their Retired Aussies Website
Inflorescence Photos by Ron Heberle and the Thelymitra Page of The Species Orchid Society of Western Australia
Common Name The Shining Lip Diuris - The Nanny Goat Orchid
Flower Size 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm]
Found in Western Australia at elevations of sea level to 250 meters in winter wet depressions, and swamps as a small to just medium sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid with a slender stem with 1 to 2, linear-lanceolate, lower one similar to the leaves bracts and carrying 3 to 8, narrowly linear, spirally twisted leaves and only blooms after a fire has swept by in the spring on an erect, 8 to 14" [20 to 35 cm] long, 1 to 6 flowered inflorescence with loosely sheathing floral bracts.
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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