Scientific Name: Corunastylis nudiscapa Endemic Having a natural distribution confined to a particular geographic region

Common Name: bare midge-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: Small midge orchid. Single slender green leaf with a maroon base, 60-80 mm long. The leaf projects up into and sometimes through the flowers.

Height (m): 0.35 – 0.8

Flowers: 5-25 brown to purplish nodding flowers, crowded in a dense terminal spike. Small white glands on the tepals. Narrow, fleshy toothed labellum with a callus extending three-quarters of the way to the apex.

Municipality
HobartKingborough
Plant Communities
Dry Eucalypt Forest
Habitat Notes

Only found at a few sites in south-east Tasmania, growing in open forests and woodlands dominated by Eucalyptus tenuiramis on mudstone.

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Specialist 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.