Common name: Bago Leek Orchid
Prasophyllum bagoense D.L.Jones APNI* Description: Terrestrial herb, 25–40 cm high.
Leaf to 20–35 cm long, dark green with reddish to purple base.
Inflorescence 15–30-flowered, moderately crowded to crowded. Flowers pale tawny green, fragrant. Dorsal sepal narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 6–7.5 mm long, 3–3.5 mm wide, deflexed. Lateral sepals free, linear-lanceolate, 6.5–7.5 mm long. Lateral petals upswept, widely spreading, linear, 6.5–7.5 mm long, 1.3–1.5 mm wide. Labellum very shortly stalked; lamina 5.5–6 mm long, 4–4.5 mm wide, broadly ovate-lanceolate in outline when flattened, constricted in the distal half; erect, slightly recurved in the distal half; apex just projecting through the lateral sepals, the margins proximally irregular, irregular and crenulate distally. Callus plate ovate-oblong, constricted in the distal half, 3–3.7 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, raised, fleshy, shallowly channelled centrally, green, extending 2/3 of the distance to the labellum apex, glabrous.
Capsule obovoid, 4–5 mm long, c. 3 mm wide, pale green, shiny.
Flowering: December–January.
Distribution and occurrence: Restricted to Bago State Forest, SE NSW. Grows in grassy forest in shallow clay loam. Alt. c. 1000 m.
NSW subdivisions: ST
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Critically Endangered; Commonwealth EPBC: Critically Endangered
Text by P.H. Weston
Taxon concept: Jones (2000, 2006)
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