Name: Bunochilus prasinus Common Name: Glossy Greenhood
    Synonym: Pterostylis sp aff Melagramma 2
       
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We thought this might be a difficult quest to find this newly defined orchid but in the end we found it in 4 out of 6 locations we tried.  Plants were flowering in 3 of the areas.  Perhaps we were lucky!  On one occasion we had headed bush from a main road as the area "looked good".  We headed up a hill and found some Pt. Nana leaves and thought that was good when Mischa told me to freeze as I was inches from the Melagramma we sought.

This quite a different orchid from a Smaragdyna and Chlorogrammus.

Photographed in the North-West of Victoria.

Details (Vic):

Flowering:  July to September.

Size: Up to 25cm tall,  flower -  1 to 5, 15mm long. 

Position:  Widespread in North-West Victoria.  Mallee and Mallee Heathland areas.

Endemic

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