Eriochilus tenuis

Eriochilus tenuis Lindl.

Slender Bunny Orchid

Eriochilus scaber (Pink Bunny Orchids)

John Lindley in Sketch Veg.Swan R. 53 (1840)

Augusta to Albany with a disjunct population near Perth, growing in sandy-clay soils in seasonally wet areas. The species flowers best in the season following summer fire with flowering plants rare or absent in unburnt bushland.

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A late flowering species 50–150 mm high (rarely to 250 mm high) with a cupped, ground hugging leaf 10–30 mm long by 5–15 mm wide and up to two pale to deep pink flowers 9–12 mm across.

It is distinguished from Pink Bunny Orchid (Eriochilus scaber) by its wholly pale to deep pink flowers, uniformly green leaf on both flowering and non-flowering plants and later flowering period.

Not Listed