Microtis familiaris

Microtis familiaris R.J.Bates

Coastal Mignonette Orchid

Microtis media (Common Mignonette Orchids)

Robert John Bates in J.Adelaide Bot.Gard. 13:50-51, Fig.1 (1990)

Broke Inlet to Two Peoples Bay, growing in sandy-clay and clay soils in seasonally wet coastal flats, flowering only in the season following a summer fire.

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A near coastal species 100–250 mm high with a smooth tubular leaf 80–150 mm long by 1.5–2 mm wide and up to 20 sweetly fragrant, greenish-yellow flowers 1–1.5 mm across.

It is superficially similar to Sweet Mignonette Orchid (Microtis brownii) but is distinguished by its smaller flowers, ovary-clasping lateral sepals and shorter labellum which is not bent back against the ovary.

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