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Orchid Species: Pterostylis maxima
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pterostylis maxima is an orchid species identified by M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones in 1989.
ORIGIN: Found in central and western Victoria at elevations of 100 to 350 meters in Box Ironbark forests, dry woodlands and Mallee country.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with round tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying a basall rosette of brown, lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves and blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, 14 [35 cm] long, 1 to 8, successively flowered inflorescence with several clasping, acute sheaths spread out along the stem. This species has a sensitive lip and snaps back towards the sepals when touched.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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