ORCHIDACEAE

Horned Orchid

Rare 

0.3m - 0.6m (30-60cm) 

Green-grey or yellow-brown orchid with dark markings.Upper sepal forms a hood. 

Papery capsule 

Plant with rigid flowering stem and grass like leaves. 

Break O'Day; Burnie; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; King Island; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast 

Heath 

Not common , usually found in we t heaths., often inland e.g. Trial Harbour road, near Serpentine Quarry, Renison Bell on the west coast. 

Moist 

Hardy 

Poor; Poorly-drained; Well-drained 

Suitable below powerlines. 

Harvest stalks containing capsules by hand and place upside down inside large paper bags. dry until capsules have opened, then lightly thresh to extract seed 

Standard 

 

 

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.