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Common Name The Alpine Caladenia Mountain Caps Orchid

Flower Size 1 2/5" [3 cm]

Found in Grampians or Mountain areas, from New South Wales to Victoria, Tasmania and New Zealand at elevations of 400 to 1500 meters in montane and subalpine snowgum woodlands as a small to medium sized terrestrial orchid with a thick, fleshy, narrowly linear, sometimes red leaf that blooms in the spring in Australia on an erect, often reddish, to 12" [30 cm] tall, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence with slightly musky scented flowers

Synonyms Caladenia lyallii Hook.f. 1853; Stegostyla alpina (R.S.Rogers) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001; Stegostyla lyallii (Hook.f.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006