Pterostylis uliginosa D.L.Jones 1998 SUBGENUS Speculantha

Inflorescence Photos by Colin & Mischa Rowan and her Retired Aussies Website

Part Shade Cold LATER Spring Summer EARLYFall

Common Name or Meaning The Swamp Living Pterostylis - The Marsh Greenhood

Flower Size .24 to .3" [6 to 7.5 mm]

Found in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania Australia in buttongrass plains, soaks, swampssedgelands and seepage areas at elevations of 6 to 500 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a rosette of basal, dark green, shiny leaves that blooms in the later spring through early fall on an erect, 2.4 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, fleshy, narrowing towards the base, elongating to 12" [30 cm] when in fruit, single to 7 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Speculantha uliginosa (D.L.Jones) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide

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