WANOSCG Orchid Fact Sheet

Leptoceras

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Leptoceras

Leptoceras distribution

Name and Authority

Leptoceras (R.Br.) Lindl.

Common Name

Rabbit Orchids

Originally Described by

Robert Brown in Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 325 (1810) as Caladenia sect. Leptoceras

Flowering Months

· · · · · · · · Sep Oct Nov ·

Description

Leptoceras has one or two broad, smooth leaves, a smooth flowering stem and up to five red and white flowers with a broad dorsal sepal, narrow, erect, ear-like petals, broad, forward spreading lateral sepals and a tri-lobed labellum with two rows of yellow capped lamina calli.

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