Caladenia dimorpha Fitzg. 1875

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Common Name The Double-Shaped Caladenia - The Early Caladenia

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in Victoria Australia in woodlands and open forests on shallow, gravelly sand and clay loams as a medium sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial orchid that blooms in the spring on a 6" [15 cm] long, one to two flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Caladenia praecox Nicholls 1926; Caladenia testacea var. praecox (Nicholls) Nicholls 1939; Stegostyla dimorpha (Fitzg.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001; Stegostyla praecox (Nicholls) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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