Pterostylis mitchellii Lindl. 1848 SECTION Oligochaetochilus Drawing by © W H Nicholls

Common Name Mitchell's Pterostylis - In Australia Mitchell's Rustyhood

Flower Size ..92 to 1.04" to .68" [2.3 to 2.6 cm]

Found in southeastern Queensland and New South Wales Australia in drier eucalypt forests and Callitris woodlands and on rock outcrops at elevations of 50 to 500 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a rosette of 5 to 8, basal, ovate to oblong, shortly petiolate base leaves that are often withered at antithesis with 2 to 5, acute stem bracts that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, 8 to 20" [20 to 50 cm] long, 2 to 15 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Oligochaetochilus mitchellii (Lindl.) Szlach. 2001; Pterostylis gibbosa subsp. mitchellii (Lindl.) Blackmore & Clemesha 1965; Pterostylis rufa var. mitchellii (Lindl.) Fitzg. 1893

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 as P gibbosa ssp mitchellii drawing fide; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Oligochaetochilus mitchellii photo fide

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