Cryptostylis erecta R.Br. 1810 Photos courtesy of Greg Steenbeeke and his Australian Orchid Website

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Common Name The Erect Cryptostylis - The Bonnet Orchid

Flower Size 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm]

Found in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria Australia at elevations of sea level to 600 meters in rainforests, wet and drier forests adn heathlands among grasses, sedges anbd low shrubs as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem with basal, narrowly lanceolate to ovate, leathery, dark green above, purple below, narrowing below into and elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter through early fall on an erect, 12 to 32" [30 to 80 cm] long, 2 to 12 flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006