Caleana minor R.Br.

Leaf turgid or withered at flowering time, 50–120 × 1–2 mm, narrowly linear, channelled (obvious when fresh), reddish brown. Flower stem 50–150 mm, 1–7-flowered. Flowers 8–11 × 5–7 mm, green or greenish brown, labellum green with black calli. Dorsal sepal 7–8 × 1–1.5 mm. Lateral sepals 7–8 × 1.5–2 mm, kinked towards apex. Petals 7–8 × 1 mm. Labellum obliquely erect to nearly vertical when set; labellum strap 2.5–3 × 2.2–2.5 mm; labellum lamina flat when viewed from side, 5–5.5 × 3.5–4 mm, broadly ovate in basal two-thirds then suddenly contracted to narrow, beak-like neck c. 1.5 mm long, apex of beak deeply notched, whole upper surface of labellum lamina densely covered with shiny black calli; basal lobe pointed, recurved at steep angle to plane of labellum. Column 6–6.5 mm long.

Widespread and often locally common; frequently growing in open sites on forested ridges and slopes among litter and shrubs in freely draining clay loam, stony loam and gravelly soil. It also occurs in coastal scrub and heath in leached sand and under sheoaks in stony soil, rarely in moss and lichen pads on granite rocks. At some sites it grows in exposed patches of quartz or quartzite chips and colonises disturbed sites such as track margins, old quarries and gravel scrapes. In New Zealand it grows in litter and moss under shrubs near geothermally active ground.