Table 1.

Distribution, habitat description, clonal habit and mycorrhizal information for each of the taxa used in this study

Species	Caladenia flava	Pterostylis recurva	Drakaea elastica	Diuris corymbosa
Conservation status	Common and widespread	Common and widespread	Rare and restricted	Common and widespread
Distribution
Habitat description	Wide variety of habitats ranging from coastal woodlands, winter-wet swamps, dry eucalypt forests and granite outcrops1	Wide variety of habitats ranging from coastal woodlands, winter-wet swamps, dry eucalypt forests and granite outcrops1	Deep sandy soil in Banksia and Kunzea woodlands in close proximity to winter-wet swamps1	Banksia woodlands around winter-wet swamp margins, dry eucalypt forests1
Clonality	Seeder/clonal	Seeder	Seeder/clonal	Seeder/clonal
Infection type	Stem collar2	Underground stem2	Root-stem2	Root2
Mycorrhizal associate	Sebacina vermifera3,4	Ceratobasidium sp.2,3	Tulasnella sp.3	Tulasnella colospora5

References: ¹ Hoffman and Brown (1998); ² Ramsay et al. (1986); ³ Bonnardeaux et al. (2007); ⁴ Swarts et al. (2010); ⁵ Phillips et al., (2011).