Scientific Name: Diuris pardina

Common Name: leopard orchid

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Form Description: A donkey orchid, blotched with brown spots; 2-3 folded leaves 150-300mm long.

Height (m): 0.2 – 0.4

Flowers: 2-10 pale yellow, heavily blotched flowers, 20-25 mm across. Lateral sepals 12-16 mm, deflexed, recurved and crossed. Broad lateral lobes on the labellum.

Municipality
Break O’DayBrightonClarenceDerwent ValleyDevonportDorsetGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayGlenorchyHobartKingboroughLatrobeLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsSorellSouthern MidlandsTasmanWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Dry Eucalypt Forest
Habitat Notes

Common on the east coast, growing in woodlands, often in rocky locations.

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.