Purple Cockatoo
Basal Leaf
Adelaide Hills
Sweet Onion-orchid
Whole
 
                      
Sweet Onion-orchid (Microtis cf rara)Class: Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Orchids
Order: Asparagus (Asparagales)
Family: Orchid (Orchidaceae)
Species: Sweet Onion-orchid (Microtis cf rara)
This Photo:     Flower head

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
This is a tentative id

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This species is protected and classed as RA (Rare) under the National Parks & Wildlife, SA, Protection Act