Scientific Name: Chiloglottis cornuta

Common Name: green bird-orchid

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Height (m): 0.2 – 0.4

Flowers: Flowers resemble the wide-open beak of a young bird begging to be fed. Flowers mainly green. Labellum green with dark reddish suffusions and green to dark red stalkless calli of variable size.

Fruit: Papery capsule

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCentral CoastCircular HeadDevonportDorsetFlindersKentishKing IslandLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsWaratah-WynyardWest CoastWest Tamar
Plant Communities
No data available for this species
Habitat Notes

Widespread from coastal to alpine and sub-alpine areas growing amongst forest litter, ferns and shrubs in deep shade.

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
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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.