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Scientific Name
Eriochilus cucullatus
Family Name
ORCHIDACEAE
Common Name
Pink Autumn Orchid; Parsons Bands
Status
Height
0.1m - 0.25m (10-25cm)
Flowers
small flowers that have a pair of enlarged white or pink lateral sepals, tiny thin petals, and a sharply recurved hairy labellum closely embracing the column. An ovate dark green ground hugging leaf develops fully after flowering.
Fruit
Papery capsule
Form
Summer and autumn flowering orchid with a thin, wispy, usually leafless scape.
Municipalities
Break O'Day; Brighton; Burnie; Central Coast; Central Highlands; Circular Head; Clarence; Derwent Valley; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Glenorchy; Hobart; Huon Valley; Kentish; King Island; Kingborough; Latrobe; Launceston; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; Sorell; Southern Midlands; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar
Communities
Dry Eucalypt Forest and Woodland; Grassy Vegetation; Heath
Habitat Notes
A range of habitats from heathy open eucalypt forest to heathland and buttongrass moorland on well drained aswell as poorly drained soils.
Site Tolerance
Dry; Exposed; Moist; Shady; Waterlogged
Frost Tolerance
Hardy
Soil Tolerance
Clay; Loam; Poor; Poorly-drained; Sandy; Well-drained
General Notes
Flowering is adversely affected by summer fires (jones 1998). The flowers produce nectar that gathers in the base of the labellum. Well represented in reserves. Suitable below powerlines.
Propagation Details
Propagation Calendar
Flowering Months
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Seed Collecting Months
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Sowing Months
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Cutting Months
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Seed Information
Seed Collection
Seed Treatment Method
Standard
Seed Storage Life
Viable Seeds Per Gram
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 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.
Germination Time
Suitable for Direct Seeding
Cuttings
Expected Time to Take Root
Expected Time to Plant Out
Propagation by Division
N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.
Cutting Notes
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