Diuris pardina Lindley 1840 Photos by © John Varigos and his Orchid webpage
Photos by Colin Rowan and his Retired Aussie's Website
Common Name The Leopard Orchid - The Leopard Doubletail
Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]
Found in open forests, woodland and heathland on well drained soils at elevations of 50 to 800 meters in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2 to 3, narrowly linear, conduplicate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring in Australia on an erect, 12" [30 cm] long, 1 to 8, successively flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo hmm; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;
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