Caladenia formosa G.W.Carr

Leaf lanceolate, 80–150 × 5–12 mm, hairy. Flower stem 200–600 mm long, hairy, 1-or 2-flowered. Flowers 50–70 mm across, shiny, uniformly dark red to reddish purple or pinkish red; sepals and petals with long, relatively thick, reddish black, densely glandular tips (no clubs), tips covered with chain-like glands consisting of 4–6 cells. Dorsal sepal erect and incurved, 40–80 × 3–5 mm. Lateral sepals spreading widely in basal half, tips shallowly decurved, 40–80 × 5–7 mm, divergent. Petals similarly arranged, 35–65 × 3–4 mm. Labellum 16–20 × 10–12 mm, base pale, rest pink to red or blackish red with darker lines; margins with numerous, thin, red teeth to 3 mm long, reducing in size, but extending to apex; apex strongly recurved. Basal calli 6–8, c. 1.5 mm long, linear. Lamina calli to 1 mm long, red, in 4–6 or 8 crowded rows nearly to labellum apex. Column 12–14 × 4–5 mm, red, narrowly winged; basal glands c. 1.5 mm long, oblong, yellow with a red base.

Widespread; growing among tussocks and shrubs in scrubby woodland dominated by pink gum in rich, loamy soil.