ON THIS PLANT
Pterostylis foliata, commonly known as the slender greenhood, is a species of orchid widespread in south-eastern Australia and New Zealand. Flowering plants have a rosette of three to six, dark green, crinkled leaves crowded around the flowering stem and a single dark green and brown flower with a deep V-shaped sinus between the lateral sepals.
CHARACTERISTICS
Botanical profile.
- Genus
- Pterostylis
- Family
- Orchidaceae
ALSO KNOWN AS
Other names.
en Slender greenhood
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