May, 1942 
The Queensland Naturalist 
35 
NOTE ON PTEROSTYLIS DAINTREYANA AND 
PTEROSTYLIS PARVIFLORA IN QUEENSLAND 
By the Rev. II. M. R. Rupp (Northbridge, N.S.W.) 
In May, 1937, Dr. C. P. Ledward, of Burleigh Heads, 
forwarded speimens of a Pterostylis discovered by him at 
an altitude of 2,000 feet on the McPherson Range. These 
proved to be identical in all respects with Mueller’s 
P. Daintreyana, which up to that time had been generally 
considered endemic to the Hawkesbury Sandstone areas of 
N.S.W. Recently, however, my attention was called by 
Mr. M. A. Lower, of Myrtle Bank, S.A., to a record by the 
late F. M. Bailey in the “ Queensland Agricultural 
Journal” for October, 1910, in which he noted that 
P. Daintreyana had been found by Mr. T. F. Hall at 
Ipswich. Bv the courtesy of Mr. C. T. White, Government 
Botanist, T have been able to examine Mr. Hall’s Ipswich 
specimens, which are in the Brisbane Herbarium. The 
flowers were evidently well past maturity when collected ; 
but nevertheless T had little difficulty in concluding that 
the specimens were not P. Daintreyana , but Robert 
Brown’s P. parviflora. The basal rosette of leaves was 
quite definitely that of the latter species ; and the withered 
sepals showed no sign of the long filaments so characteristic 
of P. D amt rev ana, which are easily distinguished even in 
withered specimens. We must therefore recognise that a 
mistake was made, and that Dr. Ledward ’s discovery 
remains the first (and up to the present the only) authentic 
record of P. Daintreyana in Queensland. Mr. White 
states, however, that the Ipswich specimens retain con- 
siderable value as constituting the first definite record of 
P. parviflora itself in this State. 
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