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Pterostylis foliata

Irwin’s Greenhood

Airlie Road, Plimmerton 1 November 2016. Photo: Bill Campbell
Photo: Bill Campbell
Recorded distribution
Recorded distribution

Plant

To 30cm tall, stem stout elongating greatly after fertilisation. Leaves elliptic in a semi-rosette, stem with one or two leafy sheathing bracts.

Flowers

Medium sized 20mm tall, stout, erect with dark green, down-curved blunt dorsal sepal and petals. Labellum broad, dark green, paler below.

Flowering

October - November.

Habitat

Lowland; grassland and open scrub, track sides and well lit forest or scrub. Waikato to Otago.

Conservation

Scattered, never abundant; not threatened but naturally uncommon. Occurs in Australia

Notes

Flower seems small in proportion to stem.

Key features

Basal rosette, long stem and broad curved dorsal sepal with blunt tip.

Photos

Airlie Road, Plimmerton 1 November 2016. Photo: Bill Campbell
Airlie Road, Plimmerton 1 November 2016. Photo: Bill Campbell
Airlie Road, Plimmerton 1 November 2016. Photo: Bill Campbell
Airlie Road, Plimmerton 1 November 2016. Photo: Bill Campbell
Airlie Road, Plimmerton 24 October 2019. Photo: Matt Ward
Porirua. Photo: Ian St George
Canaan Road, Takaka Hill. Photo: Eric Scanlen
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