Scientific Name: Cyrtostylis reniformis

Common Name: small gnat-orchid

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Form Description: A small slender colony-forming orchid. Leaves in close contact with the ground, heart-shaped to oval, grey-green, paler and crystalline underneath.

Height (m): 0.03 – 0.12

Flowers: 1-4 pinkish-brown flowers with narrow petals and sepals; a prominent paddle-like protruding pinkish-brown labellum; raised central callus with two conical glands with dark central spots at the base.

Municipality
Break O’DayBrightonBurnieCentral CoastCentral HighlandsCircular HeadClarenceDerwent ValleyDevonportDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayGlenorchyHobartHuon ValleyKentishKing IslandKingboroughLatrobeLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsSorellSouthern MidlandsTasmanWaratah-WynyardWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Dry Eucalypt ForestHeath
Habitat Notes

Common in heathy and grassy forest to 400m altitude.

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.