Name: Anzybas unguiculatus Common Name: Small Helmet Orchid
    Synonym: Corybas unguiculatus
       
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We stopped the car in the carpark as you do.  Amazingly, these orchids were just in front of the car.  It always pays to look!

Last year we knew where they were but after 10 hours of searching over a 3 week period we did not find one.  This year we just had to get out of the car.  Character building someone said!

Photographed at Wilsons Promontory.

Details (Vic):

Flowering:  Flowering May - August, mainly June to July.

Size: Ground hugging to 4cm,  flower - 1, to 15mm across. 

Location:  Found in coastal closed scrublands, open forests and wet heathlands.  Sand and sandy loams.  Often found in leaf & bark litter and humus under bracken, sedges, grasses and shrubs, in cool damp and sheltered areas.

Endemic, Secure

 

 

   
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