Diuris punctata (Purple Donkey Orchid)

1 Purple Donkey Orchid at South Pacific Heathland Reserve

Diuris punctata at South Pacific Heathland Reserve - 21 May 2018

Identification history

Diuris punctata	9 Jul 2018	Mike Leggett
Diuris punctata	23 May 2018	Charles Dove
Unidentified	23 May 2018	Charles Dove

Author's notes

Diuris punkata, commonly known as donkey orchids, is a genus of more than sixty species of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic to Australia apart from one species endemic to Timor

6 comments

plants wrote:

24 May 2018

This is the Purple Donkey Orchid - Diuris punctata.
Apparently not very common locally.

Charles Dove wrote:

24 May 2018

OK thanks the Yellow one is also with it they were about 20mtrs apart

Nicholas de Jong wrote:

26 May 2018

Agreed: Diuris punctata and Diuris sulphurea (yellow), Diuris aurea also known from this reserve.

Charles Dove wrote:

26 May 2018

will need to make some alterations for these

AaronClausen wrote:

29 May 2018

Wow. In flower in May? Lucky you! The one in Canberra comes up in like October from memory.

Charles Dove wrote:

30 May 2018

Sorry, I am doing a catch of sightings Aaron, it will take awhile. All the photos I record have the Name , Location and Date on the photo. Only recorded in May it was in October 2017 when this was Photographed a long way to go before I finish all the sightings updates for this area.

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Location information

Maps South Pacific Heathland Reserve

Species information

Sensitive
Local Native
Non-Invasive

Sighting information

1 - 3 Abundance
21 May 2018 Recorded on
Charles Dove Recorded by
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