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Orchid Species: Pterostylis tenuissima
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pterostylis tenuissima is an orchid species identified by Nicholls in 1950.
ORIGIN: Found in South Australia to Victoria, Australia in coastal areas, mainly in Western Victoria but also at Wilsons Promontory and grows in tall dense closed scrublands dominated by Leptospermum lanigerum in wet black mud at elevations of sea level to 50 meters that is protected by voracious mosquitoes and found.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of dark green, thin textured leaves that blooms on an erect, 12 [30 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence that arises in the spring and early summer.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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