Caladenia clavigera A. Cunn. ex Lindl. 1840 SUBGEN. Phlebochilus ( Benth. ) Hopper & A.P.Br. 2000

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Common Name The Bulging Caladenia - The Plain Lip Spider Orchid

Flower Size 1 3/5" [4 cm]

This small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial species is from Victoria, Australia but they grow in other Eastern States as well and favours open forest and woodland with well-drained soil where it is widespread and common, growing in loose colonies where it blooms in the spring in situ on an erect, 6" [15 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence and is thought to be pollinated by pseudo-copulation perpetrated by the male thynnid wasp.

Synonyms Arachnorchis clavigera (A.Cunn. ex Lindl.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.. 2001; Caladenia cordiformis R.S.Rogers 1920 ; Phlebochilus clavigera (A. Cunn. ex Lindl.) Szlach. 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;