Calochilus platychilus

ORCHIDACEAE
Woodland Bearded Orchid, Purple Beaded Orchid


A common orchid
An erect single blue green leaf with a powdery white appearance, sometimes with a red base, folded (V shaped) 30 cm long.

The flower head can be 40cm tall, with 1 to 8 flowers usually only one at a time. A light green with reddish marked hood with a distinctive hanging hairy purple tongue. Flowering Oct to Nov.

1 to 5 flowers, sweet to musky scented. 30mm across with one upright petal & 4 lateral petals each 0.8 mm to 1.5cm long, pale greenish, pinkish white with a darker striped central labellum with yellow tips. Flowering August to October

.Do not transplant.
Found in heathlands & woodlands in SA, VIC, ACT, NSW & TAS