Pterostylis cyanocephala C. Fitzg. 1876 SECTION Hymenochilus Photo by Ron Heberle and the Thelymitra Page of The Species Orchid Society of Western Australia
Plant in situ Victoria Australia
Photos by Colin Rowan and his Orchid Website
LATE
THROUGH EARLY
Common Name The Blue-Headed Pterostylis - In Australia The Swan Greenhood
Flower Size 1/4" [.8cm]
Found in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, at elevations of 50 to 800 meters where it favours grassland, grassy forest and woodland in well drained soils and is a miniature sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial orchid with a 6 to 12, ground hugging elliptical, dark green, marginally flat leaves that blooms in the late winter through the early summer on a terminal, erect, 4" [10 cm] tall, racemose inflorescence with several [2 to 20] flowers.
Synonyms Oligochaetochilus cyanocephala (C. Fitzg.) Szlach. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 drawing fide; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Hymenochius cyanocepahlus photo good
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