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

Common Name: milford 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: A robust white-lipped leek orchid, single, tubular, dark-green leaf, purplish at the base.

Height (m): 0.3 – 0.7

Flowers: 8-20 greenish-brown and white flowers held in a loose spike, lateral sepals free. Blunt, white labellum with heavily crisped margins, sharply recurved near the middle and projecting through the lateral sepals with a short, yellowish-green callus.

Municipality
Clarence
Plant Communities
Sedgeland and Wetland
Habitat Notes

Only on one site on private land near Cambridge, southern Tasmania, where it grows in sandy sedgeland.

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.