Pterostylis mutica

Pterostylis mutica R.Br.

Oligochaetochilus muticus; Hymenochilus muticus

Midget Greenhood

Pterostylis mutica (Midget Greenhoods)

Robert Brown in Prodr. 328 (1810)

Tambellup to Eucla with a disjunct population at Wongan Hills, growing in sandy, sandy-clay and loamy soils in woodlands and shrublands. Also found in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, southern Queensland and Tasmania.

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A small flowered species 100–200 mm high with four to seven leaves forming a ground-hugging basal rosette 30–40 mm across, two to three cauline leaves and up to 15 small, dull green flowers 4–5.5 mm across.

It is distinguished from the related Northampton Midget Greenhood (Pterostylis sinuata) by its darker green flowers, entire, rather than wavy margined, rosette leaves and south-easterly distribution.

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