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 Victoria and Tasmania as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial occuring in woodland, coastal heath and swampy grassland where it blooms on an erect, to 20" [50 cm] tall, several tro many flowered inflorescence with 8 to 100 successively opening flowers occuring in the spring and summer.
Synonyms Microtis biloba Nicholls 1949; Microtis pulchella var. vivax Lindl. 1840
