Scientific Name: Pterostylis straminea Endemic Having a natural distribution confined to a particular geographic region

Common Name: large bearded greenhood

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Form Description: A medium, upright bearded greenhood, a rosette of 8-20, crowded light green leaves with darker green veins and wavey margins, often extending up the stem.

Height (m): 0.1 – 0.35

Flowers: A solitary translucent dark green flower; thin pointed hood, parallel lateral sepals, thin and deflexed. A long labellum with pale yellow hairs and a large knob at the apex protrudes prominently from the hood.

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCircular HeadFlindersGlamorgan-Spring BayHobartTasman
Plant Communities
Coastal VegetationDry Eucalypt ForestGrasslandHeath
Habitat Notes

Relatively common in in woodland and grassland in the east.

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.