Diuris laevis Fitz. 1882

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Ron Heberle and the Thelymitra Page of The Species Orchid Society of Western Australia

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Common Name The Shining Lip Diuris - The Nanny Goat Orchid

Flower Size 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm]

Found in Western Australia at elevations of sea level to 250 meters in winter wet depressions, and swamps as a small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with 4 to 8, spirally twisted leaves and only blooms after a fire has swept by in the spring on an erect, 8 to 14" [20 to 35 cm] long, 1 to 6 flowered inflorescence.

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

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