Caladenia latifolia R. Br. 1810

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Common Name The Broad Leafed Caladenia - In Australia "Pink Fairies"

Flower Size1 1/2" [3.5 cm]

Found in Southern Australia and Tasmania in sandy coastal scrublands and in open forests as a small sized, cold to warm growing terrestrial with a single, hairy, often repent, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate leaf that blooms in the late winter and spring in nature, on an erect, 16" [40 cm] long, single to several [1 to 4] flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Caladenia elongata Lindl. 1839; Caladenia latifolia var. alba Guilf. 1911; Caladenia mollis Lindl. 1839; Caladeniastrum latifolium (R.Br.) Szlach. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2001; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995