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Pterostylis nana R.Br.

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Pterostylis nana R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 327 (1810)
Pterostylis nana R.Br.

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R.Br.
1810
327
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Pterostylis nana R.Br.
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Pterostylis nana

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Pterostylis nana R.Br.

Plant slender, to c. 15 cm. tall. Stem minutely rough, lower internodes us. puberulous with short stiff projecting hairs. Rosette lvs ∞, lamina c. 7 × 5 mm., ovate, acute, petiole little shorter, narrowly winged; cauline lvs smaller, sheathing. Fl. solitary, us. remote from highest bract. Dorsal sepal c 10–15 mm. tall, erect for about ⅔ of its length, then almost horizontal, apex obtuse to shortly acute; lateral sepals very long-connate, diverging at a very wide angle and so broadly U-shaped in front view with an inturned median tooth, sharply contracted into slender, ± erect caudae standing well above galea. Petals equal to or longer than dorsal sepal, subacute. Labellum oblong. Column longer than labellum; stigma long-oval, prominent.

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Pterostylis nana R.Br.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

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13 March 2002
9 April 2015
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