Grampians Greenhood

About

Pterostylis macilenta is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to the Grampians National Park in Victoria. As with similar greenhoods, flowering plants differ from those that are not flowering. The non-flowering plants have a rosette of leaves flat on the ground but the flowering plants have up to six translucent, dark green flowers and lack a rosette.

How to spot it

Pterostylis macilenta, is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber. Non-flowering plants have a rosette of between three and six, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves, each leaf 10–35 mm (0.4–1 in) long and 3–7 mm (0.1–0.3 in) wide. Flowering plants lack a rosette but have up to six flowers on a flowering spike 150–350 mm (6–10 in) high with five or six linear to narrow lance-shaped stem leaves that are 25–80 mm (1–3 in) long and 3–10 mm (0.1–0.4 in) wide. The flowers are

Documented on these trails

Found in

• Cathedral Range State Park — Melbourne, the Dandenongs & Central Victoria hikes