Eriochilus dilatatus Lindl. 1842

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 Broad Eriochilus - The Easter Bunny Orchid

Flower Size .55 to .75" [1.4 to 1.8 cm]

Found in Western Australia at elevations of 10 to 300 meters in wetter forests often colonizing rotting logs as a small to medium szied, cold to cool growing terrestrial with a held above the ground, dark green, narrow, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, 4 to 12" [10 to 30 cm] long, 2 to 11 flowered, hairy inflorescence

Synonyms Eriochilus dilatatus subsp. brevifolius (Benth.) Hopper & A.P Br.2006; Eriochilus dilatatus subsp. magnus Hopper & A.P.Br. 2006; Eriochilus dilatatus subsp. multiflorus (Lindl.) Hopper & A.P.Br. 2006; Eriochilus dilatatus subsp. orientalis Hopper & A.P.Br. 2006; Eriochilus dilatatus subsp. undulatus Hopper & A.P.Br. 2006; Eriochilus dilatatus var. brevifolius Benth. 1873; Eriochilus dilatatus var. latifolius (Lindl.) Benth. 1873; Eriochilus latifolius Lindl. 1840

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