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{{Inc| Pterostylis (Greek, wing column; the column is broadly winged). Orchidaceae. Terrestrial herbs with small underground tubers: radical lvs. ovate; st.-lvs. developed and linear or lanceolate, or reduced to scarious sheathing scales: fls. usually green, often tinged red or brown, large and solitary or smaller and several in a raceme; dorsal sepal broad, erect, incurved and very concave; petals lanceolate-falcate, attached to the basal projection of the column; labellum on a short claw at the end of the basal projection of the column, movable; column with a pair of hatchet-shaped or quadrangular wings.—About 50 species, mostly Australian but a few in New Zeal, and New Caledonia and 1 in New Guinea. P. curta, R. Br. Lvs. in a radical rosette, usually on long petioles, ovate or broadly elliptical, 5-9-nerved: scapes 1-fld.; usually about 6 in. high; galea erect, acute; lip linear, obtuse, entire, rather longer than the column; wings of the column with the lower lobe long and obtuse, the upper lobe short and broad. Austral. B.M. 3086. O. 1910:104. Cult, to some extent in greenhouses abroad as are the following: P. acuminata, R. Br. Austral. B.M. 3401; P. Banksii, R. Br. New Zeal. B.M. 3172; P. Baptistii, Fitzg. Austral. B.M. 6351; and P. nutans, R. Br. Austral. B.M. 3085. They are prop, by division and thrive in lf .-mold lightened by a little sand; the lower third of the pots should be filled with broken crocks. F. Tracy Hubbard. }} {{Taxobox | color = lightgreen | name = Greenhood | image = Pterostylis coccinea 270903.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = ''Pterostylis coccinea'' | regnum = [[Plant]]ae | divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]] | classis = [[Monocotyledon|Liliopsida]] | ordo = [[Asparagales]] | familia = [[Orchidaceae]] | tribus = [[Diurideae]] | subtribus = [[Pterostylidinae]] | genus = '''''Pterostylis''''' | genus_authority = [[Robert Brown (botanist)|R.Br., 1810]] | type_species = ''Pterostylis curta'' | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }} [[Image:Pterostylis coccinea 051002a.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Pterostylis coccinea'', sepals and petals removed<br />(1) - Lip<br />(2) - Hinge<br />(3) - stigma<br />(4) - pollinia]] '''Pterostylis''' is a [[terrestrial plant|terrestrial]] deciduous genus of some 100 or so species of orchids found mainly in [[New Zealand]], [[Australia]], [[Papua New Guinea]] and [[New Caledonia]]. The common name of this orchid is '''Greenhood''' - a number of species have green flowers with the [[orchid flower|dorsal sepal]] forming a "hood" over the rest of the flower. The name ''Pterostylis'' is based on the Greek words meaning winged column (''pteron'' - a wing, ''stylis'' - a [[column (botany)| column]]). In a number of species, the flower has a hinged [[labellum|lip]] that swings backwards when touched by an insect, forming a tube with the [[column (botany)|column]] and wings. The trapped insect is then forced to crawl out of the tube, removing the [[pollinia]] in the process. ==Species== * ''[[Pterostylis acuminata]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis agathicola]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis alveata]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis alobula]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis areolata]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis auriculata]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis australis]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis banksii]]'' ** var. ''banksii'' ** var. ''silvicultrix'' * ''[[Pterostylis barbata]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis basaltica]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis brumalis]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis caulescens]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis cardiostigma]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis cernua]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis collina]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis concinna]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis cucullata]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis curta]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis cycnocphala]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis despectans]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis foliata]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis gibbosa]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis graminea]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis grandiflora]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis humilis]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis irsoniana]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis irwinii]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis micromega]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis montana]]'' ** var. ''montana'' ** var. ''rubricaulis'' * ''[[Pterostylis mutica]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis nana]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis nutans]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis oliveri]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis ophioglossa]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis papuana]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis parviflora]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis patens]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis paludosa]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis plumosa]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis porrecta]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis praetermissa]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis puberula]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis reflexa]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis revoluta]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis rufa]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis sanguinea]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis saxicola]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis tanypoda]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis tasmanica]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis tristis]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis trullifolia]]'' ** var. ''gracillis'' ** var. ''trullifolia'' * ''[[Pterostylis venosa]]'' * ''[[Pterostylis woolsii]]'' ==References== Flora of New Zealand, Volume II [[Category:Orchids of Australia]] [[Category:Orchids of New Zealand]] [[Category:Orchid genera]]

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