Gastrodia lacista D.L.Jones 1991

Plant and Habitat Photos by Ron Heberle and the Thelymitra Page of The Species Orchid Society of Western Australia

EARLY

Common Name The Cut Up Gastrodia - In Australia The Gastrodia Western Potato Orchid

Flower Size .4 to .5" [1 to 1.2 cm]

Found in Western Australia at elevations of 5 to 200 meters in Jarrah forests and she-oak woodlands often near swamps as a small to large sized, cold growing, mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with an erect leafless, slender, fleshy to wiry, 10 to 26" [25 to 65 cm] long stem carrying 5 to 25, tubular, pendant flowers occuring in the spring and early summer.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 photo fide;

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