Pterostylis sanguinea

Pterostylis sanguinea D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.

Oligochaetochilus sanguineus; Urochilus sanguineus

Dark Banded Greenhood

Pterostylis vittata (Banded Greenhoods)

David Jones & Mark Clements in Austral.Orchid Res. 1:126-127 (1989)

Moora to Munglinup, growing in sandy, sandy-clay and lateritic soils in forests, woodlands and shrublands. Also found in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania.

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A common species 50–400 mm high with three to 12 cauline leaves 20–40 mm long by 4–7 mm wide and up to 10 fleshy, semi translucent, reddish-brown (more rarely green) and white flowers 12–18 mm across. The type form of Pterostylis sanguinea most closely matches Crowded Banded Greenhood (P. atrosanguinea) in Western Australia and what we have been calling P. sanguinea may be an undescribed species.

It is distinguished from the closely related Crowded Banded Greenhood (Pterostylis atrosanguinea) by its variably coloured reddish-brown or green, smaller, usually more widely spaced flowers.

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