ORCHIDACEAE

Black-tipped Spider Orchid

Endangered 

0.1m - 0.2m (10-20cm) 

Flower single, white to cream with pale reddish lines and prominant black caudae, labellum white to cream, calli dark reddish purple, column transluscent with reddish markings. 

Papery capsule 

Leaf narrowly lanceolate, base purple blotched, densely hairy. Scape, wiry, densely hairy. 

Derwent Valley; Northern Midlands 

Dry Eucalypt Forest and Woodland; Grassy Vegetation 

Tas. endemic. Grassy woodland with Silver Wattle and bracken. 

Dry; Exposed; Exposed 

Tender 

Sandy; Well-drained 

Much of its habitat has been lost to agriculture, but maybe present in other remnant woodlands in the Midlands. Very dry and fire prone. Not represented in reserves. Suitable below powerlines. 

 

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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 tousands 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.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 tousands 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.