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Pterostylis arbuscula, the dark banded greenhood, is a small native terrestrial orchid of mallee shrubland in southern Australia that grows from a tuber and is rarely cultivated. Its key requirement is to be left undisturbed in its natural habitat rather than grown as a garden plant.
Pterostylis arbuscula, commonly known as dark banded greenhood, or mallee banded greenhood, is a species of orchid endemic to the south of continental Australia. It has a rosette of leaves borne above the ground and up to 3 dark reddish brown to blackish brown to green flowers with white bands, and is found in Western Australia and South Australia.
The dark banded greenhood grows in mallee shrubland and woodland in Western Australia and South Australia. (In Victoria it is included in the circumscription of P. sanguinea.) In South Australia it is mainly found away from the coast in drier areas, and in Western Australia it is mainly found in inland areas between Ravensthorpe, Brookton, Merredin and Toolinna Cove in the south-west of the state.
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 arbuscula by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
