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Diuris brockmanii, the south coast donkey orchid, is a small tuberous terrestrial orchid native to south-western Western Australia, flowering in late winter to early spring. It is a wild species of coastal heath and mallee, rarely grown in gardens, so care notes are general guidance for terrestrial Diuris orchids.
Diuris brockmanii, commonly known as south coast donkey orchid, is a species of orchid that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has two or three linear leaves and a flowering stem with up to ten yellow flowers with reddish-brown markings.
South coast donkey orchid grows in coastal and near-coastal low shrubland, heath and mallee woodland between Esperance and Ongerup in the Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Lemon doubletail · Buttercup doubletail · White donkey orchid · Diuris amabilis · Giant donkey orchid · Tomaree donkey orchid · Golden Donkey Orchid · Little golden moths · Golden Cowslips · Diuris brachyscapa · Diuris bracteata · Short-leaved donkey orchid
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diuris brockmanii 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.
