Midget Greenhood at Tennent, ACT
Identification history
| Hymenochilus muticus | 28 Oct 2019 | TobiasHayashi | ||
| Hymenochilus bicolor (ACT) = Pterostylis bicolor (NSW) | 19 Oct 2019 | MattM |
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User's notes
I thought muticus based on habitat. Jean is convinced it is bicolor. It looks like bicolor.
4 comments
TobiasHayashi
wrote:
26 Oct 2019
Hmm I would have thought surely muticus? Looks like muticus to me. Did Jean say why she thought it was bicolor?
MattM
wrote:
26 Oct 2019
She says the dots aren't green enough, and they should be more similar to the colour of the rest of the plant.
TobiasHayashi
wrote:
26 Oct 2019
The dots being the labellum appendage? My understanding is that the labellum appendage in muticus can be variable from quite pale to dark green but that in bicolor it is always jet black.
MattM
wrote:
26 Oct 2019
Comparing this to the recently confirmed sighting, 
Hymenochilus bicolor (Black-tip greenhood) on 20 Oct 2019 , I would say the labellums are at least a completely different shape.
Location information
- Places Tennent, ACT
Sighting information
- 30 Abundance
- MattM Recorded by
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Collections
MattM Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Hymenochilus muticus Orchids Plants
Species information
- Hymenochilus muticus Scientific name
- Midget Greenhood Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1235.74m Recorded at altitude
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In flower
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Synonyms
Pterostylis mutica