Scientific Name: Diuris chryseopsis

Common Name: common golden moths

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Form Description: Moth orchid. Spring flowering. Erect, linear, grass-like leaves 50-150 mm long.

Height (m): 0.1 – 0.3

Flowers: 1-4 nodding lemon-yellow flowers with brown streaking on spade-like labellum; 13-40 mm across and narrow oval petals.

Municipality
Break O’DayBrightonBurnieCentral CoastCircular HeadClarenceDorsetGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayHobartHuon ValleyKingboroughLatrobeLauncestonNorthern MidlandsSorellSouthern MidlandsTasmanWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Coastal Vegetation
Habitat Notes

Common in coastal grasslands in the north and east of Tasmania as well as in the Midlands; found in places that are seasonally wet in winter.

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.