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Pterostylis anaclasta

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Native range
Queensland
Climate
subtropical

About

Pterostylis anaclasta is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of Queensland. It has a rosette of about 6 sessile leaves and about 4 transparent white flowers with bright reddish lines and markings, a reddish brown labellum with white hairs, and lateral sepals strongly turned backwards.

Where it grows

Pterostylis anaclasta is only known from the type location near Eungella Dam where it grows on rocky outcrops in open forest.

Other Pterostylis plants

Tablelands greenhood · Needle-point rustyhood · Pterostylis actites · Sharp greenhood · Long-tongued summer greenhood · Kauri Greenhood · Sutton Grange Greenhood · Striped greenhood · Shy greenhood · Winter Greenhood · Alpine greenhood · Coastal greenhood

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pterostylis anaclasta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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