Scientific Name: Thelymitra rubra

Common Name: pink sun-orchid

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Form Description: A small, slender salmon-pink sun orchid with a solitary deeply-channelled green leaf.

Height (m): 0.2 – 0.4

Flowers: 1-5 small salmon-pink flowers, column irregularly toothed, yellow apex with short yellow column arms, often with a few short yellow hairs.

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCentral CoastCircular HeadClarenceDerwent ValleyDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayGlenorchyHobartHuon ValleyKentishKing IslandKingboroughLatrobeLauncestonNorthern MidlandsSorellSouthern MidlandsTasmanWaratah-WynyardWest CoastWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Dry Eucalypt ForestHeath
Habitat Notes

Widespread and common in coastal and near-coastal heathland and open scrub.

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.