Scientific Name: Paraprasophyllum concinnum Endemic Having a natural distribution confined to a particular geographic region

Common Name: trim leek-orchid

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Form Description: Green-brown leek orchid. Single dark-green, tubular leaf, purplish at the base, 150-300mm long.

Height (m): 0.18 – 0.3

Flowers: 10-20 brownish-green flowers on a moderately crowded spike, lateral sepals free but often held closely together. Labellum reddish-green, long and recurved with margin often pinched in towards the centre with a broad, fleshy callus extending nearly to the labellum apex. Fragrant.

Municipality
Glamorgan-Spring BayHuon ValleyKingboroughTasman
Plant Communities
Coastal VegetationDry Eucalypt ForestHeathSedgeland and Wetland
Habitat Notes

Common in moderately drained soils and peat in coastal and near-coastal heathlands, sedgelands and open forest in the south-east.

General Notes

A variable species, particularly in size. Responds well to summer fires with plants often being much more robust (up to 800 mm) for the following couple of seasons.

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.