save the Blue Tier
natural history: monocotyledons
Following is a partial listing of monocotyledons growing on the Blue Tier of Tasmania. While we expect to expand the number of species we doubt we will be able to do justice to the many grasses growing on the Blue Tier.
Random image of Blue Tier monocotyledons
- CYPERACEAE
- Ghania grandis - Cutting Grass
- Ghania sp.
- GRAMINEAE
- Australopyron pectinatum - Comb Wheat Grass
- LILIACEAE
- Astelia alpina - Pineapple Grass
- Dianella tasmanica - Blue Berry
- Drymophila cyanocarpa | 2 - Turquoise Berry
- ORCHIDACEAE - Blue Tier
orchids - thumbnails page (120kB)
- Acianthus caudatus - Mayfly Orchid
- Caladenia alpina - Mountain Caladenia
- Caladenia mentiens - Lesser Caladenia
- Caladenia sp. 1
- Caleania major - Large Duck Orchid
- Calochilus robertsonii - Red Beard Orchid
- Chiloglottis cornuta - Green Bird Orchid
- Chiloglottis gunnii - Tall Bird Orchid (possibly C. triceratops)
- Corybas aconitiflorus - Spurred Helmet Orchid
- Dipodium roseum - Rosy Hyacinth Orchid
- Eriochilus cucullatus | more - Pink Autumn Orchid
- Gastrodia sesamoides - Potato Orchid
- Glossodia major - Wax-Lip Orchid
- Microtis unifolia - details Onion Orchid
- Prasophyllum alpinum - Alpine Leek Orchid
- Pterostylis decurva - Summer Greenhood
- Pterostylis longifolia group (possibly P. williamsonii)
- Pterostylis nutans - Nodding Greenhood
- Pterostylis pedunculata - Maroonhood
- Pterostylis scabrida - Greenhood
- Sarcochilus australis - Butterfly Orchid, Gunn's Tree Orchid
- Townsonia viridis - Beech Orchid
- Thelymitra cyanea - Veined Sun Orchid | rare white form
- Thelymitra media - Tall Sun Orchid
- Thelymitra sp. - Sun Orchid
- POACEAE
- Echinopogon ovatus - Hedgehog Grass
- TYPHACAE
- Typha latifolia - Cumbungi, Bullrush
Literature:
Jones, D. et al, 1999. The Orchids of
Tasmania. MUP, Victoria. 408 pp. ISBN 0 522 84851 6.
Tasmanian DPIW maintains a list of flowering times for
orchids
(.pdf file ~800KB)
Understorey
Network maintains a comprehensive list of of the orchids found in
Tasmania.