New Zealand Native Orchids
 
 
Rosetted Greenhood Orchids
plants with a rosette and a separate flowering stem
             
     
Pterostylis alobula

Habitat: lowland scrub and well lit forest. Northland to Banks Peninsula.Widespread, common.

Key features: presence of rosette and flowering stages, very small flower, lateral sepals incurved at junction to give toothless look.


 
Pterostylis trullifolia

Habitat: lowland to montane, light scrub and forest. Northland to Nelson and Marlborough Sounds.

Key features: presence of rosette and flowering stages, very small flower, lateral sepals rolled outwards at junction to give pouting look.


 
Pterostylis alveata

Habitat: lowland poor soils in hard beech, manuka and gorse. Wellington to Nelson, local, rare.

Key features: small flower and large rounded first year leaves, thickened, jutting junction to sepals, broad petals.



 
Pterostylis brumalis

Habitat: in the immediate vicinity of the kauri. Northland to Waikato. Widespead, common.

Key features: small flowered, plants with rosette stage, rosettes usually on a distinct stem.



plants with a rosette producing a flowering stem
             
     
Pterostylis puberula

Habitat: under open scrub and sedges. Northland to Nelson; local, rare.

Key features: small plant with a distinctive rosette, stubby flower and beady stem.




 
Pterostylis tanypoda

Habitat: montane grassland in short turf, often with Hieracium. Nelson southwards.

Key features: plant with a basal rosette, presence of several small greenish flowers, very stout tepals, labellum callus points outwards.


 
Pterostylis tristis

Habitat: open grassland in short turf, often wetter areas or more shaded slopes, often with Hieracium. Marlborough to Otago.

Key features: small plant with a basal rosette, several small, usually brownish, flowers, labellum callus pointed inwards.


 
Pterostylis tasmanica

Habitat: winter wet gumland scrub; often with sedges. Northland to Nelson. Local, rare.

Key features: very distinct with the hairy, pendulous labellum.



         
     
Pterostylis foliata

Habitat: Lowland; grassland and open scrub, track sides and well lit forest or scrub. Waikato to Otago.

Key features: basal rosette, long stem and broad curved dorsal sepal with blunt tip.



 
Pterostylis nutans

Habitat: clay areas beneath light scrub. Not currently known, last recorded near Taupo, Australian vagrant.

Key features: medium sized flower turned upside down, broad-leaved rosette of undulation leaves.


   
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