Hymenochilus muticus
Midget Greenhood at Jerrabomberra, NSW
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| Hymenochilus muticus | TobiasHayashi | 17 Oct 2019 | |
| Hymenochilus bicolor | MattM | 14 Oct 2019 |
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User's notes
Growing on the side of a very rocky path. Not the sort of habit I was expecting to see it.
3 comments
17 Oct 2019
This one is H muticus, which often occurs in typically low numbers in these kinds of habitats around Canberra. Labellum appendage too pale for H bicolor which is properly black (overall flower shape a little different too).
18 Oct 2019
I thought muticus at first, but I thought the shape was closer to bicolor (when compared to illustrations in the ACT guide).
Hearing from you that muticus grows in those conditions is quite helpful as I thought that this genus only grows in open field conditions.
Hearing from you that muticus grows in those conditions is quite helpful as I thought that this genus only grows in open field conditions.
18 Oct 2019
Yeah, H muticus is the dry woodland and mallee species, most of the others are open grassland species (although I think H bicolor in Vic grows in woodland too).
Location information
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- MattM Recorded by
Collections
Species information
- Hymenochilus muticus Scientific name
- Midget Greenhood Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1235.74m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Pterostylis mutica
Seasonal activity
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Was the plant in flower?
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