Pterostylis daintreana F.Muell. ex Benth. 1873 SECTION Oligochaetochilus Photo by © Reiner Richter and The Wikipedia webpage

EARLY EARLIER

Common Name Daintree's Pterostylis - In Australia Daintree's Greenhood

Flower Size .56 to .68" [1.4 to 1.7 cm]

Found in southeastern Queensland and New South Wales Australia among shrubs or in moss in shallow pockets of soil on rock ledges and crevices at elevations of 50 to 800 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold gropwing terrestrial with a dissimilar non flowering plant with a rosette of ovate, petiolate base leaves, the flowering plant has 1 to 2 rosettes of leaves on side shoots arising from the base of the flowering, wiry stem carrying 3 to 5, small, closely adpressed, subulate bracts like stem leaves that blooms in the early summer through earlier winter on an erect, 4 to 12" [10 to 30 cm] long, loosely 3 to 10 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Oligochaetochilus daintreanus (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Szlach. 2001; Pharochilum daintreanum (F.Muell. ex Benth.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969 photo fide; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 drawing fide; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Pharochilum daintreanum photo fide

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