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Gibraltar Range midge orchid

Genoplesium bishopii

Gibraltar Range midge orchid
Photo: Lachlan Copeland, CC BY-SA 4.0

Gibraltar Range midge orchid is a small terrestrial orchid from one national park in New South Wales, grown mainly by specialists rather than commonly in gardens. It needs moist, cool-to-mild heath conditions and is rarely cultivated.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist during the growing season and let it dry slightly while dormant.
Soil
Free-draining, acidic, sandy or peaty mix with some organic matter.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect from frost and sustained heat above 30 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Genoplesium bishopii, commonly known as Gibraltar Range 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 thirty small, dark purplish red flowers. It grows in heathy forest and on the edges of swamps in the Gibraltar Range National Park.

Where it grows

Genoplesium bishopii is only known from the Gibraltar Range National Park where it grows in heathy forest and on the edge of swamps.

Other Genoplesium plants

Corunastylis densa · Genoplesium laminatum · 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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Genoplesium bishopii 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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