Scientific Name: Paraprasophyllum lindleyanum

Common Name: green leek-orchid

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Form Description: A slender, bright-green leek orchid with a single tubular leaf to 350 mm.

Height (m): 0.2 – 0.35

Flowers: 12-50 green to yellowish flowers in a loose, uncrowded spike. A white to pinkish labellum, margins highly crisped and a greenish-yellow callus. Highly scented.

Municipality
BurnieDorsetGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayHobartHuon ValleyKingboroughLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsSorellTasmanWest CoastWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Coastal VegetationDry Eucalypt ForestHeathSedgeland and Wetland
Habitat Notes

Uncommon and localised to coastal sedgeland, heathland and open eucalypt scrub.

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.