helmet-orchis

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


This English name is appliedin Australia to the orchid Pterostylis cucullata, R. Br.

1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. ii. p. 168:

«I also found three varieties of a singular green orchis,of a helmet shape, growing singly, on rather tall slenderfootstalks.»

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