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Pterostylis tasmanica

Bearded Greenhood

Tahanga Road, Kaingaroa 11 October 2015. Photo: Bill Campbell
Photo: Bill Campbell
Recorded distribution
Recorded distribution

Plant

To 25 cm tall. Flowering plants with a basal rosette and several sheathing bracts.

Flowers

With broad dorsal sepals and petals, pointed and upright and curved towards the tip. Lateral sepals erect in bud, drop straight down in open flowers then close up again in spent flowers. Labellum a brush of yellow bristles terminating in a dark brown callus drooping well beyond the flower and swaying in the wind.

Flowering

September - October.

Habitat

Winter wet gumland scrub; often with sedges. Northland to Nelson. Local, rare.

Conservation

Widespread but never common. Threatened - Nationally Vulnerable.

Notes

Closely related to Australian species. Often with the less common P. puberula.

Key features

Very distinct with the hairy, pendulous labellum.

Photos

Tahanga Road, Kaingaroa 11 October 2015. Photo: Bill Campbell
Whatuwhiwhi 11 October 2014. Photo: Bill Campbell
Te Paki 8 October 2016. Photo: Bill Campbell
Tahanga Road, Kaingaroa 25 September 2008. Photo: Bill Campbell
Tahanga Road, Kaingaroa 11 October 2015. Photo: Bill Campbell
Tahanga Road, Kaingaroa 11 October 2015. Photo: Bill Campbell
Tahanga Road, Kaingaroa 11 October 2015. Photo: Bill Campbell
Tahanga Road, Kaingaroa 28 September 2013. Photo: Bill Campbell
Kaimaumau Wetland 16 October 2021. Photo: Bill Campbell
Juvenile plant, Tahanga Road, Kaingaroa 9 August 2014. Photo: Bill Campbell
Te Paki 8 September 2018. Photo: Bill Campbell
Tahanga Road, Kaingaroa 13 August 2016. Photo: Bill Campbell
Te Paki 8 September 2018. Photo: Bill Campbell
Tahanga Road, Kaingaroa 13 August 2016. Photo: Bill Campbell
Tahanga Road, Kaingaroa 30 August 2015. Photo: Bill Campbell
Tahanga Road, Kaingaroa 5 September 2021. Photo: Bill Campbell
Te Paki - Far North. Photo: Ian St George
Te Paki - Far North. Photo: Ian St George
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