Caladenia fuscata (Rchb.F.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones

Leaf 50–80 × 2–2.5 mm. Flower stem 50–120 mm tall, thin, 1-flowered. Flowers 12–16 × 14–20 mm, white to pink or magenta, externally dark brownish pink with numerous sessile glands, often with broad, dark median bands; labellum white to pink with red bars; midlobe cream to yellowish; calli yellow; column greenish with red bars. Dorsal sepal 7–12 × 2 mm, erect. Lateral sepals 7–12 × 2 mm. Petals 6–1 × 2 mm. Labellum 5–6 × 5–5.5 mm; lateral lobes entire, shallowly incurved; midlobe triangular, recurved with 10–14 short, blunt, marginal teeth. Calli in 2 rows to base of midlobe. Column 6–7 × 2.5–3 mm.

Widespread and common; favours freely draining soils in drier inland forests, but also extends to coastal forest and scrub; shallow soil over rock plates.

The tubers are eaten.