Diuris suffusa D.L.Jones & C.J.French

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae > Diuris

Characteristics

Leaves 2 or 3, 100–200 x 4–8 mm, folded. Flower stem 150–300 mm, 1–7-flowered. Flowers 15–25 mm across, cream to creamy yellow with light brown to red-brown markings; petals cream to creamy yellow with light blotchy markings, dorsal sepal and labellum lateral lobes marked and suffused with red-brown, midlobe heavily marked with brown or red-brown. Dorsal sepal recurved near apex, 5–8 × 7–10 mm. Lateral sepals deflexed, crossed, recurved, 9–16 × 1.5–3 mm. Petals obliquely erect; stalk 3–4.5 mm long, curved, brownish; blade oblong elliptic, 8–13 × 5–8 mm. Labellum 4–6 mm long; lateral lobes 4–6 × 3–4 mm; midlobe convex, margins sharply downcurved, wedge-shaped when flattened, 4–6 × 3–4 mm. Callus ridge 1, 3–4 mm long, yellow surrounded by red-brown.
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Locally common; growing in low shrubland with scattered eucalypts in moist to wet sandy clay.
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Distribution

Diuris suffusa world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77154886-1
WFO ID wfo-0001345587
COL ID 6DC9G
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Synonyms

Diuris suffusa