Pterostylis furcata Lindl. 1840 SECTION Pterostylis
Photos by Colin Rowan and his Retired Aussie's Website
Common Name The Small Sickle Greenhood - In Australia The Forked Greenhood
Flower Size 1/10" [.3 cm]
Found as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial in Tasmania Australia at elevations of 500 to 900 meters in tall wet, montane forests with a loose rosette of 2 to 3 basal, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, entire to crenate margin, shortly petiolate leaves with 2 to 3, leaflike, loosely sheathing stem bracts that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, 10 " [25 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Pterostylis dubia Hook.f. 1858; Pterostylis furcata var. typica Hatch 1949
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol51 No 8 1982 photo good; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo good
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