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Black-striped leafy greenhood
An orchid plant about 150 mm high with about 6 flowers on the spike facing away fro the stem. The hood was translucent and green with a yellow tip. Lateral sepas were drooping and the lip was yellow with a dark median stripe. Leaves were lanceolate, alternate and placed low on the stem.
Spotted in a nature reserve known for indigenous orchids - Baluk Willam
''Pterostylis melagramma'', commonly known as the black-stripe leafy greenhood is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. Individual plants have either a rosette of three to six leaves or a flowering spike with up to twenty flowers and five to seven stem leaves. The flowers are translucent green with faint darker green lines and have a brownish-yellow labellum with a dark stripe.
