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Corunastylis laminata
Also called Rufous Midge Orchid
Genoplesium laminatum is a small, deciduous terrestrial orchid from New South Wales, Australia, with a single thin leaf and up to twenty bright reddish flowers. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, and it needs native heath or grassy forest conditions with a dormant underground tuber.
Genoplesium laminatum, commonly known as the red midge orchid, is a small terrestrial orchid endemic to New South Wales. It has a single thin leaf fused to the flowering stem and up to twenty bright reddish flowers. It grows in heath and grassy forest in a few places on the South Coast and Central Tablelands.
Genoplesium laminatum grows in heathy or grassy forest between Jervis Bay and Bowral.
Corunastylis densa · Genoplesium leptochilum · Genoplesium trifidum · Midge Orchids · Pointed midge orchid · Tableland midge orchid · Black midge orchid · Freak midge orchid · Elfin midge orchid · Erect midge orchid · Brittle midge orchid · Gibraltar Range midge orchid
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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.
