Corunastylis tepperi ( F.Muell. ex R.S.Rogers ) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2002 Photos courtesy of Colin Rowan and his Retired Aussies Website

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Common Name Tepper's Corunastylis - The Mallee Midge Orchid

Flower Size .15" [3mm]

Found in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia in woodlands, mallee vegetation and drier forests at elevations of 50 to 300 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a single attached leaf that becomes free below the inflorescence and ending before the flower pedicels that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, 12" [30 cm] long, 5 to 50 densely flowered, semi-nodding flowers

Synonyms *Prasophyllum tepperi F.Muell. ex R.S.Roger 1909

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;