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Internal ID UUID643fea221ff34832640817
Scientific name Pterostylis pratensis
Authority D.L.Jones
First published in Austral. Orchid Res. 3: 149 (1998)

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Pterostylis pratensis, also known as the Liawenee greenhood, is a plant in the orchid family that is native to Tasmania. It has a rosette of leaves on the ground and produces up to twelve white flowers with green stripes. This species is found only in low, exposed subalpine grassland. It is a perennial herb with an underground tuber and blooms from November to December. The species was first described in 1998 and its name refers to its habitat in meadows. It is listed as vulnerable under conservation acts due to threats such as grazing and cultivation. There are only eleven known populations of this species, with an estimated population size of at least 600.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Oligochaetochilus pratensis (D.L.Jones) Szlach. Polish Bot. J. 46: 25 (2001)
Hymenochilus pratensis (D.L.Jones) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. Austral. Orchid Res. 4: 74 (2002)

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English liawenee greenhood

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World Flora Online wfo-0000288561
Tropicos 50200129
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1006473-1
The Plant List kew-170627
Open Tree Of Life 55684
NCBI Taxonomy 528263
IPNI 1006473-1
iNaturalist 1155881
GBIF 2847626
EOL 1132219
Wikipedia Pterostylis_pratensis

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