Pterostylis coccina Fitzg.1878 SECTION Diplodium

Many Views Of Flower Photo by John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Plant and Flowers in situ Photo by © Colin Rowan and His The Retired Aussie's Orchid webpage

EARLY

Common Name The Scarlet Pterostylis - In Australia The Scarlet Greenhood

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in New South Wales and Victoria Australia among grass, shrubs and rocks in tall moist forests at elevations of 700 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of large, flat, dark green leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on an erect, 3.2 to 9" [8 to 22.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Diplodium coccinum (Fitzg.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 1966; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 drawing fide; Die Orchideen #6 21-24 tafel 7 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 drawing ok; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Diplodium coccinum photo good

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