Scientific Name: Caladenia filamentosa
Common Name: daddy longlegs
Family Classification (Clade): Monocots
Family: Orchidaceae
Threatened Species Status: Rare
Permit: It is an offence to collect, disturb, damage or destroy this species unless under permit.
Form Description: Leaf tall, hairy.
Height (m): 0.2 – 0.35
Flowers: 10-40 maroon flowers with long thread-like tails (50-70mm long) on the flower segments. Labellum small, red with cream stripes.
Fruit: Papery capsule
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Habitat Notes
Coastal scrub, heathland and open eucalypt forest.
Soil Tolerance
Sandy
General Notes
Tasmania’s only wispy spider orchid.
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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.