Pterostylis pyramidalis

Pterostylis pyramidalis Lindl.

Pterostylis nana var. pyramidalis; Linguella pyramidalis; Diplodium pyramidalis

Tall Snail Orchid

Pterostylis nana (Snail Orchids)

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

Gingin to Albany, growing in sandy-clay soils in seasonally wet flats.

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A tall species 100–400 mm high with four or five basal leaves forming an ascending basal rosette 20–30 mm across, six to 10 cauline leaves and one (rarely two) translucent, green and white flowers 6–8 mm across.

It is distinguished from the other members of the Pterostylis nana complex by its loose basal rosette of leaves and tall flower scape up to 400 mm high.

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