Family: Orchidaceae
Prasophyllum patens
Citation:
R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 318 (1810).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Scented leek-orchid, broad-lip leek-orchid, broad-lip orchid.
Description:
Plant 10-90 cm high; leaf erect, terete, varying in length, the base sheathing, often exceeding the spike.
Flowers sessile or almost so, spreading, often numerous, in a loose or crowded spike; ovary turgid, dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate, c. 7 mm long, more or less recurved, green with brown markings; lateral sepals lanceolate, 7-8 mm long, conical or acute or slightly 2-dentate, not inflated at the base, free, green; petals linear, subacute, 5-6 mm long, spreading in the mature flower; labellum almost sessile, ovate-lanceolate, c. 6 x c. 4 mm; margins crenulate to crenate; callus plate green, not prominent, hardly channelled; anther a dark red-brown with a short point, shorter than the rostellum; pollinia 2, caudicle short, linear, attached to a narrow triangular disk; column appendages narrow-oblong with smooth blunt or notched tips and small rounded lobes, shorter than the rostellum; rostellum erect, 2-fid at the tip; stigma reniform.
Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
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Biology:
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