Caladenia cardiochila Tate 1887 SUBGENUS Calonema ( Benth. ) Hopper & A.P.Br. 2000 Photo courtesy of Malcolm Thomas of Australia
Photo courtesy of Cathy Powers and Her AUSTRALIAN TERRESTRIAL ORCHIDS & OTHER FLORA & FAUNA - Banjorah Website
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Common Name The Heart-Shaped Lip Caladenia - The Thick-Lipped Spider Orchid
Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]
This miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial species is found in Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia at elevations of 20 to 100 meters in heathy forest, woodland and mallee - usually in sandy soils with round tubers giving rise to an erect, pilose stem carrying a long, linear, pilose, obtuse, basally conduplicate into the clasping base leaf just above the ground and another much smaller one just above the middle and blooms on an erect, 2 1/2" [6.25 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence occuring in the late winter and spring in situ and is said to be pollinated by pseudocopulation by the male thynnid wasp.
Synonyms Arachnorchis cardiochila (Tate) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001; Phlebochilus cardiochila (Tate) Szlach. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Australia Riley & Banks 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 5 2005; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 6 2006/7 photo; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006
