Chiloglottis cornuta Hook.f. 1844

Plant and Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Colin Rowan and his Retired Aussies Website

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Common Name The Green Bird Orchid

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia usually in mountain areas in closed, shady, wet forests at elevations of 50 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial small ground hugging plant with 2 parellel, veined, green, elliptic leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on an erect, 1 3/5" [4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Simpliglottis cornuta (Hook.f.) Szlach. 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006; The Native Orchids of New Zealand, A Colour Field Guide Scanlen & St George 2010 photo fide;

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