Name: Diplodium dolichochilum Common Name: Portland Large Tongue Shell Orchid
    Synonym: Pterostylis dolichochila
       
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A wonderful find in the bush - according to our book only one population in the area we looked at.

This may be separate taxon from that that grows in the Little Desert.

Photographed in the Portland Area.

 

Details (Vic):

Flowering:  July/August.

Size: Up to 20cm tall, flower - to 25mm

Position:  Mallee regions and one colony on the Coast.  Found in woodlands, open mallee scrublands and on the edge of closed coastal scrublands.  Sandy and sandy loams and clay soils.

Endemic, Rare.


Rosette - sterile plants only.

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