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Image Credit: Anna Povey – with permission
Scientific Name: Caladenia anthracina Endemic Having a natural distribution confined to a particular geographic region
Common Name: blacktip spider-orchid
Family Classification (Clade): Monocots
Family: Orchidaceae
Threatened Species Status: Endangered
Permit: It is an offence to collect, disturb, damage or destroy this species unless under permit.
Form Description: Leaf narrowly lanceolate, base purple blotched, densely hairy. Scape, wiry, densely hairy.
Height (m): 0.1 – 0.2
Flowers: Flower single, white to cream with pale reddish lines and prominent black tails, labellum white to cream, calli dark reddish purple, column translucent with reddish markings.
Fruit: Papery capsule
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Habitat Notes
Grassy woodland with silver wattle and bracken.
Site Tolerance
Dry, Exposed
Soil Tolerance
Sandy, Well-drained
Frost Tolerance
Tender
General Notes
Much of its habitat has been lost to agriculture; has a restricted distribution in the Midlands area. Very dry and fire prone.
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Propagation Method
Seed Information
Seed Treatment Notes
Orchid seeds are very minute yellow, brown or blackish dust-like particles. Orchid seeds are produced within a capsule that splits at maturity and releases thousands to millions of seeds. Dispersed by wind and water and only germinate following infection of the embryo by a suitable mycorrhizal fungus. Very few seeds become mature plants. For more information see Jones, Wapstra, Tonelli, Harris (1999): The Orchids of Tasmania.