Scientific Name: Corunastylis pumila

Common Name: green midge-orchid

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Flowers: A small green to yellowish midge orchid, with up to 25 poorly opening flowers, often with reddish suffusions on lateral sepals and labellum; single leaf finishing well below the inflorescence. A thick fleshy labellum with pointed apex.

Municipality
Circular HeadDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayHuon ValleyKingboroughTasmanWaratah-WynyardWest Coast
Plant Communities
Alpine and Sub-alpine VegetationDry Eucalypt ForestHeath
Habitat Notes

A few, small, widely separated populations from alpine and sub-alpine grasslands to lowland forest and heathlands, often on the margins of damper areas.

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.