Microtis arenaria Lindl. 1840 Photo courtesy of Cathy Powers and her AUSTRALIAN TERRESTRIAL ORCHID OTHER FLORA & FAUNA BANJORAH Website
Plant and Flowers in situ Victoria Australia Photos courtesy of Colin Rowan and his Orchid Website
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Common Name The Sand Loving Microtis - Notched Onion Orchid
Flower Size 1/8" [.3 cm]
Found in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania at elevations of sea level to 500 meters in coastal habotats in sand or well drained clay loams as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a single leaf that blooms on an erect, to 20" [50 cm] tall, 10 to 60 flowered inflorescence with successively opening, crowded flowers occuring in the spring.
Synonyms Microtis biloba Nicholls 1949; Microtis pulchella var. vivax Lindl. 1840
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 4 1998 photo; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006
