Scientific Name: Pterostylis melagramma

Common Name: blackstripe greenhood

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Form Description: A tall greenhood with 5-7 stem leaves, basal rosette of 3-6 leaves on separate basal stalk.

Height (m): 0.15 – 0.8

Flowers: 1-20 shiny, translucent pale green flowers with indistinct darker green stripes. Long, oblong, yellowish-cream labellum with a dark-brown basal mound and central stripe.

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCentral CoastCircular HeadDevonportDorsetFlindersGeorge TownKentishKing IslandLatrobeLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsWaratah-WynyardWest CoastWest Tamar
Plant Communities
No data available for this species
Habitat Notes

Widespread and common, growing in a variety of habitats from moist forest litter to rocky outcrops from the coast to the mountains.

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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.