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Common Name The Rigid Spider Orchid

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found mainly western Victoria, Australia, at elevations of 50 to 200 meters in the Little desert area, as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with an erect, pilose stem carrying 2, lanceolate, acute sheaths one at the middle and the other just below the flower that blooms in the spring in Australia on an erect, to 12" [30 cm] tall, 2 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Arachnorchis tensa (G.W.Carr) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Australia Riley & Banks 2002; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006