Plectorrhiza tridentata, commonly known as the common tangle orchid, is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid that has many coarse, tangled roots, up to twenty narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped or oblong leaves and up to fifteen green or brown, star-shaped flowers with a white labellum. It grows on rainforest trees and in other humid places and occurs between the Daintree National Park in Queensland and the far north-eastern corner of Victoria.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Common tangle orchid being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Sarcochilus australis
- Thrixspermum formosanum
- Peristeranthus hillii
- Sarcochilus parviflorus
- Sarcochilus hillii
- Sarcochilus loganii
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Plectorrhiza
- Species
- Plectorrhiza tridentata
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