Pterostylis planulata
D.L.Jones & MA.Clem.Flowering plant to 20 cm tall, stem leaves 3–4, closely sheathing. Rosette leaves 5–8, elliptic to ovate, 1.8–3 cm long, 4.5–8 mm wide. Flowers 1–7, porrect, c. 1.5 cm long, transparent with green lines and suffusions; dorsal sepal with straight or upcurved filiform point 20–30 mm long; lateral sepals deflexed, conjoined part broadly ovate in outline when flattened, shallowly concave to nearly flat, margins slightly upcurved, densely ciliate, free points filamentous, 20–35 mm long, deflexed, more or less parallel, c. 10 mm apart at the tips; petals with a poorly developed proximal flange. Labellum oblong-ovate to oblong-obovate, 5.5–7 mm long, 3–3.5 mm wide, dark green, thin-textured, margins scalloped; marginal hairs 9–12 pairs, c. 1 mm long, white, spreading; basal lobe sloped backwards, with 2 prominent, forward-pointing hairs c. 3 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GGr, DunT, HSF. Also SA.
Localized in Victoria, mostly in and near the Grampians where occasional in shallow soils overlying rock, with isolated records from clayey soils of the Little and Big Deserts.
Jones, D.L. (1994). Pterostylis. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 798–830. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
Spinning