Name: Oligochaetochilus woollsii Common Name: Long Tail Greenhood
    Synonym:  Pterostylis woollsii

 

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It took us 7 hours of searching but we found it! I must admit that for 6.9 hours we were searching in the wrong direction.  So don't search where you have searched over and over - it is probably somewhere else!  Think for a change and move on!

Photographed in the Rushworth area.

Details (Vic):

Flowering:  Flowering October - December, mainly in  November.

Size: Up to45cm tall,  flowers -  usually 1 to 5, to 25mm long

Location: Rushworth area. Open Mallee scrublands and adjacent open forests dominated by Grey Box.

Endemic, Endangered.

 

   

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