Pyrorchis forrestii

Pyrorchis forrestii (F.Muell.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.

Lyperanthus forrestii; Fitzgeraldia forrestii; Burnettia forrestii; Rostranthus forrestii

Pink Beaks

Ferdinand von Mueller in Definitions of some new Australian plants. Southern Science Record 2: 55 (1882) as Lyperanthus forrestii

Augusta to Albany, growing in sandy-clay and clay soils in seasonally wet flats and shallow soil pockets on granite outcrops. Plants flower only in the season following summer fire.

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A sweetly perfumed species 100–300 mm high with a large, smooth, narrowly heart-shaped basal leaf 40–80 mm long by 20–40 mm wide and up to seven pale to deep pink (more rarely white) flowers 25–30 mm across. The species often has a second smaller basal leaf held opposite to the main leaf.

It is distinguished from the closely related Red Beaks (Pyrorchis nigricans) by its pale to deep pink (more rarely white) flowers, later flowering period and swampy habitat.

Not Listed