<p><i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Diuris_punctata" title="Diuris punctata">Diuris punctata</a></i>. Native, cool-season, perennial, slender, erect herb to 60 cm tall. There are 2 erect, grass-like leaves. Flowerheads are racemes and have 1-10 flowers to 5 cm wide. Flowers are mauve to purple, often with darker purplish blotches, and yellow at the base of the labellum. Grows in grassland, woodlands, forest and heath, usually on fertile, loamy
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soils, including periodically inundated areas. This specimen was from the headland at Hat Head, NSW
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/73840284@N04">Harry Rose</a> from South West Rocks, Australia
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