Scientific Name: Cryptostylis subulata

Common Name: large tongue-orchid

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Form Description: A tall duck-billed orchid. Small groups of green lanceolate leaves.

Height (m): 0.5 – 0.8

Flowers: 3-20 green to yellow-green flowers, only a few open at a time. Large projecting labellum, dark-brown at the apex, rolled at the edges, forming a partial tube.

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieClarenceDerwent ValleyDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayHuon ValleyKentishKing IslandKingboroughLatrobeMeander ValleySorellTasmanWaratah-WynyardWest CoastWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Coastal VegetationHeath
Habitat Notes

Localised on coastal moorland and heathland on damper, poorly drained soils and at the edge of swamps.

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.