!Spiculaea ciliata Lindl. 1839 Photo courtesy of Ron Heberle and the Thelymitra Page of The Species Orchid Society of Western Australia

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Common Name The Eyelash Spiculaea The Western Elbow Orchid

Flower Size 3/4" to .8" [1.7 to 2 cm]

Found in Western Australia at elevations of 50 to 400 meters on granite outcrops and granite sheets in soil pockets as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 2, dark green above, reddish purple below, narrowly elliptic to narrowly cordate, obtuse leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, rigid, fleshy, brown, thickening and swelling towards the apex, 3.2 to 7.2" [8 to 18 cm] long, 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Drakaea ciliata (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1871

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 1966; Die Orchideen #6 21-24 tafel 7 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo/drawing hmm; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006

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