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Scientific Name
Lyperanthus suaveolens
Family Name
ORCHIDACEAE
Common Name
Brown Beaks (orchid)
Status
Height
0.3m - 0.45m (30-45cm)
Flowers
Strongly perfumed and narrowly segemented brown flowers that have widely spreading sepals and petals, a hooded dorsal sepal and a prominant yellow tipped labellum.
Fruit
Papery capsule
Form
Erect linear-lanceolate, greyish-green leaf, stout dark scape.
Municipalities
Break O'Day; Burnie; Derwent Valley; Dorset; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Glenorchy; Hobart; Huon Valley; Kingborough; Tasman
Communities
Coastal Vegetation; Grassy Vegetation; Heath; Sedgeland and Wetland
Habitat Notes
Heathy and sedgy open eucalypt forest and woodland, sedgeland, heathland and grassland on poorly drained to well-drained sandy and peaty soils, often in dense vegetation. Locally fairly common in coastal and near coastal lowland areas from north-eastern to south-eastern Tas. However it also occurs on Hunter Is., and there is a 1929 herbarium record from Port Davey in the South-west. Also in Qld, NSW, ACT and Vic.
Site Tolerance
Exposed; Moist; Shady; Waterlogged
Frost Tolerance
Tender
Soil Tolerance
Poor; Poorly-drained; Sandy; Well-drained
General Notes
Flowering is not stimulated by fires (Jones and Clements 1994). Well represented in reserves. Suitable below powerlines.
Propagation Details
Propagation Calendar
Flowering Months
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Oct
Nov
Dec
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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