Pterostylis Porrecta
''Pterostylis porrecta'' is a species of greenhood orchid endemic to New Zealand. Flowering plants have spreading, grass-like leaves on the flowering stem and a single small, transparent white and green flower with the lateral sepals held close to horizontally in front of the flower. Description ''Pterostylis porrecta'' is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber. Non-flowering plant have a rosette of three or four linear to lance-shaped, dark green leaves which are long and wide. Flowering plants have a single transparent white flower with green lines and long on a flowering stem tall. There are also four or five linear to lance-shaped leaves long and wide with their bases wrapped around the flowering stem. The flower leans forward and the dorsal sepal and petals are fused, forming a hood or "galea" over the column. There is a wide gap between the galea and the lateral sepals which have long, tapering tips, spread apart from each other and hel ...
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