Scientific Name: Pterostylis curta

Common Name: blunt greenhood

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Form Description: A stout greenhood, a rosette of 2-6 dark green leaves encircling the scape, margins entire or crinkled.

Height (m): 0.1 – 0.3

Flowers: Single green, white and brown flower with a short blunt hood, a bulging sinus and prominent cream to brown labellum, twisted towards the apex.

Municipality
Break O’DayBrightonClarenceDerwent ValleyDevonportDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayKingboroughLatrobeLauncestonNorthern MidlandsWaratah-WynyardWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Dry Eucalypt ForestHeath
Habitat Notes

Locally common in heathy and shrubby eucalypt forest in the east and north-east, including the Furneaux Islands. Often in colonies in moist, sheltered areas.

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.