Scientific Name: Pterostylis concinna

Common Name: trim greenhood

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Form Description: A slender wiry greenhood, a rosette of 3-6 dark green leaves encircling the base.

Height (m): 0.08 – 0.3

Flowers: Small, green and white-striped flower with reddish-brown markings on top of petals. Long erect lateral sepals, protruding just above the hood. A forked labellum just visible above a shallow sinus.

Municipality
Break O’DayFlindersKentishLaunceston
Plant Communities
Coastal VegetationHeath
Habitat Notes

Widespread and common in moist coastal and near-coastal sand dunes, grasslands and Melaleuca scrub.

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.