Pterostylis aestiva

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Liliopsida/Asparagales/Orchidaceae/Pterostylis

At a glance

Occurrence records205

Data sources5

Biological traits29

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections1

Sources5 archives

Databases and archives Pterostylis aestiva's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility205 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements4 literature sources29 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF205 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries1 detections

01Narrative

Pterostylis aestiva, commonly known as the long-tongued summer greenhood, is a species of orchid endemic to south-eastern Australia. As with similar greenhoods, the flowering plants differ from those which are not flowering. The non-flowering plants have a rosette of leaves flat on the ground but the flowering plants have a single flower with leaves on the flowering spike.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPAusTraitsTRYGIFT

Size & morphology5

Leaf length20 mm

Leaf width12.5 mm

Plant height0.225 m

Plant height max0.35 m

Plant height min0.1 m

Life cycle & reproduction10

Dispersal typewind

Flowering endApr

Flowering startJan

Flowering timeyyyynnnnnnnn

Life formtuberous geophyte

Life spanperennial

Pollination syndromeinsect

Raunkiær life formcryptophyte

Resprouting capacityresprouts

Sex typehermaphrodite

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment10

Aquaticterrestrial

Climatesubtropical

Climberself-supporting

Epiphyteterrestrial

Fruit fleshinessdry

Fruit typecapsule

Growth formherb

Leaf compoundnesssimple

Leaf shapeovate

Woodinessnon-woody

Physiology & chemistry2

Nitrogen fixingnon_nitrogen_fixer

Photosynthetic pathwayC3

Other traits1

Plant support typefree-standing

05DNA & barcoding1 eDNA hits

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Pterostylis aestiva has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

eDNA detections1

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type205 records

Wild obs. + sensor80

Museum / vouchered123

Cultivated / captive2

Origin

Native8

Introduced2

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO420 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy59% within 1 km

≤100 m 25≤1 km 21≤10 km 24>10 km 8

78 georeferenced · 2 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor80

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy48% within 1 km

≤100 m 1≤1 km 57≤10 km 56>10 km 7

121 georeferenced · 2 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence123

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

Coordinate accuracy50% within 1 km

≤1 km 1≤10 km 1

2 georeferenced

Open the mapnot free-living2

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions3 of 4 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Canberra, AU	71
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record	42
Mount Annan, AU	9
Brisbane, AU	1

4 institutions · 123 of 123 vouchered records shown

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Pterostylis aestiva was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found1

Studies independent surveys1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 detections have coordinates

Open the map0 countries0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.

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