Pterostylis puberula Hook.f. 1853 SECTION Linguella

Plant and Flower in situ New Zealand Photos by © Michael Pratt and New Zealand Native Orchid Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Downy Pterostylis

Flower Size .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm]

Found in New Zealand in seepages on sunny tracksides in scrub as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with a slender, white puberulent stem carrying on a non-flowering plant, basal, rosette of trowel shaped leaves and in a flowering plant, sparse cauline leaves on the stem that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Diplodium puberula [Hook.f.] M A Clem. 2010; Linguella puberula (Hook.f.) D.L.Jones, M.A.Clem. & Molloy 2002

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Native Orchids of New Zealand, A Colour Field Guide Scanlen & St George 2010 as Diplodium puberulum photo fide;

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