Scientific Name: Pterostylis nutans

Common Name: nodding greenhood

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Form Description: A medium-sized, strongly-nodding greenhood; a rosette of 3-6 dark-green crinkled, oval leaves. Often forming clonal colonies.

Height (m): 0.08 – 0.3

Flowers: Single, translucent pale-green flower, often orange-brown towards the apex; a curved, bristled, green and brown labellum protruding prominently.

Municipality
Break O’DayBrightonBurnieCentral CoastCentral HighlandsCircular HeadClarenceDerwent ValleyDevonportDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayGlenorchyHobartHuon ValleyKentishKing IslandKingboroughLatrobeLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsSorellSouthern MidlandsTasmanWaratah-WynyardWest CoastWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Alpine and Sub-alpine VegetationDry Eucalypt ForestHeath
Habitat Notes

Common and widely distributed from the coast to alpine and sub-alpine areas in a variety of moist, sheltered habitats.

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.