Pterostylis pedina (D.L.Jones) Janes & Duretto

Species

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Characteristics

Plants growing in clumps. Rosette leaves 8–12, oblong to elliptic, 10–43 x 5–12mm, margins minutely ciliate. Flower stem 70–20  tall,   across, 1–6-flowered. Stem bracts 3–4. Flowers porrect to suberect, 30–35 x 9–11mm, translucent white with green or light brown bands and markings. Dorsal sepal point filamentous, 8–1  long, porrect to upcurved. Lateral sepals wider than hood, shallowly concave, margins flat, densely hairy; free points filamentous, 14–2  long, divergent. Petals transparent, with large basal flanges that nearly meet, 12–14 x 4–4.5mm. Labellum elliptic, 5–5.8 x 2.5mm, thin-textured, green to light brown, tapered to base where constricted, apex flat; margins flat, with 16–22 spreading white bristles to 1.  long; two prominent bristles c.  long projecting from near base; basal lobe thin, sloping backwards, glabrous or with few short bristles.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Highly localised, growing among annual grasses and herbs along narrow outcrops of red-brown clay loam bordering black cracking clay on open treeless semi-arid alluvial plain.
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Distribution

Pterostylis pedina world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77107126-1
WFO ID wfo-0000918561
COL ID 6WLY4
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Synonyms

Oligochaetochilus pedinus Pterostylis pedina