Pterostylis alveata

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Coastal greenhood
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Pterostylis alveata growing in Beowa National Park
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Tribe: Cranichideae
Genus: Pterostylis
Species:
P. alveata
Binomial name
Pterostylis alveata
Synonyms [1]
  • Diplodium alveatum(Garnet) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.
  • Pterostylis crypta Nicholls
  • Pterostylis sp. aff. alveata (Montane)
  • Pterostylis obtusaauct. non R.Br.: Rupp, H.M.R. (January 1944)

Pterostylis alveata, commonly known as coastal greenhood, [2] is a species of orchid endemic to south-eastern Australia. As with similar greenhoods, the flowering plants differ from those which are not flowering. In this species, the non-flowering plants have a rosette of leaves flat on the ground but the flowering plants have a single small, shiny green and white flower with leaves on the flowering spike.

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Description

Pterostylis alveata is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and when not flowering, a rosette of dark green leaves, each leaf 10–25 mm long and 5–15 mm wide. Flowering plants have a single flower 12–15 mm long and 7–10 mm wide borne on a spike 100–200 mm high with between three and five spreading stem leaves. The flowers are shiny green and white. The dorsal sepal and petals are fused, forming a hood or "galea" over the column. The dorsal sepal curves forward with a pointed tip. The lateral sepals are held closely against the galea, have a thread-like tip 12–15 mm long and a flat, protruding sinus between their bases. The labellum is 8–9 mm long, 3 mm wide, dark brown and blunt, just visible above the sinus. Flowering occurs from May to June. [2] [3] [4]

Taxonomy and naming

Pterostylis alveata was first formally described in 1939 by John ("Ros") Garnet from a specimen collected on Snake Island. The description was published in The Victorian Naturalist . [5] [6] The specific epithet (alveata) is a Latin word meaning "hollowed out". [7]

Distribution and habitat

Coastal greenhood grows among grasses in moist coastal woodland and scrub between Melbourne in Victoria and Nelson Bay in New South Wales. [3] [2] [4]

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References

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