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

Common Name: golfers leek-orchid

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Threatened Species Status: Endangered

Permit: It is an offence to collect, disturb, damage or destroy this species unless under permit.

Form Description: Slender, greenish to reddish-brown leek orchid with a single tubular, green leaf, purple at the base and the apex often dried off or missing at flowering.

Height (m): 0.15 – 0.4

Flowers: 10-20 widely-gaping green-brown flowers, protruding ovaries. Pale green labellum with pinkish-brown margins that is abruptly recurved in the middle, often projecting back through the lateral sepals; prominent, shiny-green, fleshy callus.

Municipality
Northern Midlands
Plant Communities
No data available for this species
Habitat Notes

Restricted to several sites in the Tasmanian Midlands where it occurs in relatively damp native grassland and grassy eucalypt and banksia woodland on sandy loam.

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.