Pterostylis alveata

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Liliopsida/Asparagales/Orchidaceae/Pterostylis

At a glance

Occurrence records326

Data sources5

Biological traits27

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections1

Sources5 archives

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

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility326 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 sources27 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF326 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries1 detections

01Narrative

Pterostylis alveata, commonly known as the coastal 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. In this species, the non-flowering plants have a rosette of leaves flat on the ground but the flowering plants have a single small, shiny green and white flower with leaves on the flowering spike.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPAusTraitsTRYGIFT

Size & morphology3

Leaf length17.5 mm

Leaf width10.5 mm

Plant height max0.2 m

Life cycle & reproduction10

Dispersal typewind

Flowering endJun

Flowering startMar

Flowering timennyyyynnnnnn

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 alveata has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

eDNA detections1

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type326 records

Wild obs. + sensor158

Museum / vouchered166

Cultivated / captive2

Origin

Native19

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO756 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 accuracy64% within 1 km

≤100 m 58≤1 km 32≤10 km 34>10 km 16

140 georeferenced · 18 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor158

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 accuracy45% within 1 km

≤100 m 21≤1 km 48≤10 km 73>10 km 13

155 georeferenced · 11 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence166

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

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

Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km

≤1 km 2

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 institutions9 of 10 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	88
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record	52
Mount Annan, AU	19
Wollongong, AU	1
Christchurch, NZ	1
Armidale, AU	1
Auckland, NZ	1
Adelaide, AU	1
Rotorua, NZ	1
Batemans Bay, AU	1

10 institutions · 166 of 166 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 alveata 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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