Glossodia

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Glossodia
Waxlip orchid, Glossodia major
Phân loại khoa học
Giới (regnum)	Plantae
(không phân hạng)	Angiospermae
(không phân hạng)	Monocots
Bộ (ordo)	Asparagales
Họ (familia)	Orchidaceae
Phân họ (subfamilia)	Orchidoideae
Chi (genus)	Glossodia R.Br.

Glossodia là một chi mostly purple orchids from Australia. In spring vast numbers of Glossodia major flower on uncleared land.

There are only two recognised species:

• Glossodia major R.Br. - Waxlip Orchid, native to Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.
• Glossodia minor R.Br. - Small Waxlip Orchid, native to Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

Cultivation

Glossodia are hard to maintain in cultivation, growing from seed in-vitro has yielded very poor results, and plants rescued from land clearing usually last only a few years. This is most likely due to the complete reliance on a symbiotic fungus for food. The orchid forms no roots and gets all its food from interacting with mycorrhizal fungus through its 'collar'. A reasonably successful solution to this is to grow new plants in the same pot from the produced seed each year. This usually requires hand pollination but can lead to a reasonably large collection of plants over many years.