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Common Name The Green-comb Spider Orchid

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in high rainfall, coastal and hinterland areas of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with 2 round tubers giving rise to a pilose stem carrying a basal, linear, bilobed apically conduplicate below leaf and another 2 smaller ones at the middle and above that blooms in the spring in Australia on an erect, to 16" [40 cm] tall, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Arachnorchis dilatata (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001; Caladenia patersonii var. dilatata (R.Br.) Benth. 1873; Calonema dilatatum (R.Br.) Szlach. 2001; Calonemorchis dilatata (R.Br.) Szlach. 2001;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Australia Riley & Banks 2002;