The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·1090872SpeciesPlantae246 field observations
  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›monocots
  5. ›Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies
  6. ›Orchids
  7. ›Orchidoid Orchids
  8. ›Cranichideae
  9. ›Pterostylidinae
  10. ›Pterostylis
bearded bird orchid
Plate 1 of 9. (c) ramcad1, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by ramcad1 · via iNaturalist

bearded bird orchid

Pterostylis turfosa

Pterostylis turfosa, commonly known as the bearded bird orchid, is a species of orchid which is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. Flowering plants have a single translucent green flower with darker green veins, on a flowering stem with up to eighteen stem leaves. It is one of a number of bearded orchids, some of which have yet to be formally described, all of which have a distinctive feather-like labellum.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Pterostylis turfosa in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1090872.