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Orchid Species: Pterostylis sargentii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pterostylis sargentii is an orchid species identified by C.R.P.Andrews in 1905.
ORIGIN: Found in south Western Australia at elevations of 50 to 400 meters in sand to woodland and scrub in leaf litter.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial orchid with an erect stem carrying a loose, basal rosette of ovate, acute, petiolate base leaves when not blooming and imbricate, narrowly linear, acute, conduplicate leaves all up the stem that blooms in the winter and spring with a single acute, basally clasping, leafless sheath and carrying 6+ narrowly lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves and terminally arising on an erect, 2 [5 cm] long, 1 to 6 flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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