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Clustered bird orchid

Chiloglottis pluricallata

Clustered bird orchid is a small deciduous terrestrial orchid native to the New England Tableland and Barrington Tops of New South Wales, Australia, where it grows in grassy forest. It is a species rarely grown in cultivation, so care is based on its native habitat.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil moist during the growing season and let it rest when the plant dies down.
Soil
Free-draining, humus-rich, slightly acidic soil or leaf litter mix.
Temperature
Cool temperate conditions suited to its mountain habitat; protect from hard frost and heat.
How easy
Hard
Native range
NE. & EC. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Chiloglottis pluricallata, commonly known as the clustered bird orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to the New England Tableland and Barrington Tops in New South Wales. It has two broad leaves and a single reddish to purplish brown flower with a callus of about six pairs of reddish to blackish glands covering two-thirds of the top of the labellum.

Where it grows

The clustered bird orchid grows in grassy forest in mountainous areas on Barringon Tops and the New England Tableland.

Other Chiloglottis plants

Duck's-head wasp orchid · Wollongong bird orchid · Green bird orchid · Common wasp orchid · Common ant orchid · Small bird orchid · Tall bird orchid · Mountain bird orchid · Northern wasp orchid · Spade-lipped wasp orchid · Winged ant orchid · Short-clubbed wasp orchid

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chiloglottis pluricallata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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