Caladenia amnicola D.L.Jones

Bundarra spider orchid (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae > Caladenia

Characteristics

Leaf linear-lanceolate, 100–150 × 5–6 mm, hairy. Flower stem 200–350 mm tall, slender, wiry, densely hairy, 1-flowered. Flowers 40–50 mm across, green to yellowish green with red central stripes; sepals and petals with yellowish brown clubs 5–15 mm long. Dorsal sepal erect, 40–50 × 2–2.5 mm, incurved. Lateral sepals stiffly spreading then obliquely decurved, 40–50 × 2.5–3 mm, divergent. Petals similarly arranged, 25–40 × 1.5–2 mm. Labellum delicately hinged, 14–18 × 13–17 mm, dark green with maroon apex (no white patch); basal margins with 4–7 pairs of thin erect comb-teeth to 4 mm long; midlobe margins with 6–10 pairs of blunt teeth to apex; tip recurved. Basal calli c. 3 mm long. Lamina calli to 2 mm long, maroon, in 4 or 6 densely crowded rows nearly to apex of midlobe. Column incurved, 12–15 × 6–7 mm, transparent with red flecks; basal glands ovoid, c. 2 mm long, yellow with a short red stalk, shiny.
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Rare: known from a single locality; growing in dense thickets of low, myrtaceous shrubs in shrubby forest beside a stream and on slopes in freely draining gravelly soil.
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Images

Caladenia amnicola unspecified picture

Distribution

Caladenia amnicola world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:996353-1
WFO ID wfo-0000718640
COL ID PBPD
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Arachnorchis amnicola Caladenia amnicola