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Thrixspermum platystachys
Thrixspermum platystachys, commonly known as the starry hairseed, is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid that forms untidy clumps with many tangled, wiry roots, up to ten stiff, leathery leaves and many star-shaped, cream-coloured flowers with an orange and white labellum. This orchid occurs from Papuasia to northern Queensland.
Thrixspermum platystachys grows on rainforest trees and on single trees near the coast in exposed situations. It occurs in New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago and in Queensland on the Cape York Peninsula and as far south as Townsville.
Small shoe-carrying Thrixspermum · Christmas Island hairseed · Centipede Thrixspermum · Thrixspermum changlangensis · Cupped hairseed · East Asian Thrixspermum · Thrixspermum saruwatarii · Thrixspermum trichoglottis · Hairseeds
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thrixspermum platystachys by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
