Pterostylis nutans R. Br. 1810 SECTION Pterostylis Photo by Eric Hunt
Plant and Flower in situ Victoria Australia Photos by Colin Rowan and his Orchid Website
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Common Name The Nodding Pterostylis - In Australia The Nodding Greenhood - The Parrot's Beak Orchid
Flower Size almost 1 1/2" [1.5 to 2.5 cm]
Foun din Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and New Zealand in wide range of moist sheltered locations at elevations of 5 to 1000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of ovate to oblong, undulate leaves that blooms in the fall through spring on an erect, terminal 3.2" to 12" [8 to 30 cm] long, inflorescence with a single strongly nodding flower.
Synonyms Pterostylis mathewsii Cheeseman 1914 publ. 1915
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 drawing fide; Die Orchideen #6 21-24 tafel 7 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 8 1982 photo good; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 5 2005; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; The Native Orchids of New Zealand, A Colour Field Guide Scanlen & St George 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #10 2016 photo fgood;
Pterostylis nutans R. Br. 1810 var alba
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