!Drakaea elastica Lindley 1840 ="orphotdir/drakelastic.jpg"> Another Angle Photos by Colin & Mischa Rowan and her Retired Aussies Website
Plant and Flowers as well as habitatPhotography by A Brown & S D Hopper. Image used with the permission of the Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Environment and Conservation (http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/help/copyright). Accessed on Wednesday, 29 August 2012 and the Florabase Orchid Photo Website
Flower closeup Photos by © Ron Heberle
Common Name The Elastic Drakea
Flower Size 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm]
Found in Western Australia in coastal Banksia forests near winter wet sites at elevations of sea level to 150 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect, wiry stem with a small tubular sheath towards the middle and carrying towards the base a thick, fleshy, shiny, light green, cordate leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, [12 to 30 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence .
Synonyms Drakaea jeanensis R.S.Rogers 1920; Drakaea lucida J.Drumm. 1842
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 drawing fide; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 as D jeanensis drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 49 No 3 1985 photo ok; Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 6 1999 photo; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide
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