Prasophyllum wilkinsoniorum
Prasophyllum wilkinsoniorum is a species of orchid endemic to New South Wales. It has a single tubular, bright green leaf and up to forty five scented, dark greenish-brown to brownish-red flowers with a green to pinkish labellum. It grows in grassy places in a restricted area on the Southern Tablelands.
Description
Prasophyllum wilkinsoniorum is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and a single bright green, tube-shaped leaf, long with a white to reddish base. Between fifteen and forty five flowers are arranged along a flowering spike up to high. The flowers are dark greenish-brown to brownish-red and scented. As with others in the genus, the flowers are inverted so that the labellum is above the column rather than below it. The dorsal sepal is egg-shaped to lance-shaped, long, about wide and turned downwards. The lateral sepals are linear to lance-shaped, long, about wide and the petals are linear to narrow lance-shaped, long and about wide. The labellum is green to pinkish, broadly egg-shaped to lance-shaped, long, about wide and turns sharply upwards with wavy edges. There is a fleshy green to brown callus in the centre of the labellum. Flowering occurs from December to January.
Prasophyllum wilkinsoniorum was first formally described in 2000 by David Jones from a specimen collected near Tantawangalo and the description was published in The Orchadian.
Distribution and habitat
This leek orchid grows between Cathcart and Tantawangalo, usually in grassy flat areas.