Diuris platichila Fitzg.

Blue mountains doubletail (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae > Diuris

Characteristics

Leaves 2, 60–120 × 3–4 mm, folded. Flower stem 200–300 mm, 3–7-flowered. Flowers porrect, 15–20 mm across, yellow with linear brown markings on dorsal sepal and labellum. Dorsal sepal erect, ovate, c. 10 × 4 mm, with two prominent brown brown blotches (separate or fused at base) and small spots, margins irregular. Lateral sepals obliquely decurved beneath labellum, linear widening near apex, c. 10 × 2.5 mm, brownish green. Petals obliquely erect, divergent, 7–10 mm long; stalk c. 6 mm long, dark; blade elliptic to ovate, c. 10 × 8 mm, yellow, sometimes with light brown streaks. Labellum c. 6 mm long; lateral lobes spreading, curved, c. 5 mm long, widest near apex, margins entire or irregular; midlobe rhomboid to bluntly spathulate, yellow with thick brown streaks radiating towards margins. Callus ridges 2, c. 3.5 mm long, yellow with brown spots.
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Leaves 2, 250–350 × 3–4 mm, folded. Flower stem to 600 mm, 1–5-flowered. Flowers on erect slender pedicels, 20–25 mm across, chrome yellow with deep purplish brown markings or suffusions. Dorsal sepal erect, almost rhomboid, c. 10 × 4 mm, heavily blotched near base, margins speckled. Lateral sepals obliquely decurved beneath labellum, often crossed, linear-spathulate, c. 16 × 2.5 mm, brown and green. Petals obliquely erect, divergent, 12–13 mm long; stalk c. 7 mm long, dark; blade elliptic, c. 10 × 8 mm, yellow densely spotted and blotched. Labellum c. 10 mm long, spotted and blotched; lateral lobes spreading, curved, c. 8 mm long, narrow; midlobe wedge-shaped with long basal neck, almost wholly purplish brown, apex bluntly rounded. Callus ridges 2, c. 5 mm long.
Leaves 2, 150–300 × 4–6 mm, folded. Flower stem 300–500 mm, 2–8-flowered. Flowers 20–30 mm across, yellow with dark markings on dorsal sepal and labellum. Dorsal sepal erect, 8–11 × 6–8 mm, base dark. Lateral sepals deflexed, 14–16 × 2–3 mm. Petals erect; stalk 4–6 mm long, reddish brown; blade elliptical to ovate, 9–12 × 6–8 mm. Labellum 9–12 mm long; lateral lobes 4–6 × 2–2.5 mm; midlobe, wedge-shaped, 7–9 × 7–9 mm, folded. Callus ridges 2, 4–5 mm long, thick.
An orchid.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Environment

Highly localised; in the Blue Mountains it grows among tussock grass, Lomandra and shrubs in remnant patches of open forest in freely draining brown loam; at other sites it grows in dry sclerophyll forest with a shrubby understorey developed on sand and gravelly loam.
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Found among tussocks and shrubs in dry sclerophyll forest on sands and gravelly loam.
Found among tussocks and shrubs in open forest in sandy or gravelly soils.
It is a subtropical plant.
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The tubers are eaten.
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Cultivation

It can be grown from seed.
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Images

Diuris platichila unspecified picture

Distribution

Diuris platichila world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:630467-1
WFO ID wfo-0000945030
COL ID 36ZPB
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Synonyms

Diuris cuneilabris Diuris curtifolia Diuris flavopurpurea Diuris goonooensis Diuris lineata Diuris maculosissima Diuris platichila