Caladenia lobata Fitzg. 1882 SUBGEN. Calonema ( Benth. ) Hopper & A.P.Br.2000 Photo courtesy of Ron Heberle and the Thelymitra Page of The Species Orchid Society of Western Australia

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Common Name The Lobed Caladenia [refers to the side lobes of the lip] - In Australia - The Butterfly Orchid

Flower Size 1 1/8" [3 cm]

Found in SW Western Australia at elevations around 200 to 600 meters in open forest with shrubby understory on slopes as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with an erect, pilose, green stem with a large pilose, oblong-lanceolate, acute, conduplicate and clasping below leaf near the ground and a lanceolate smaller sheath just above the middle and another tubular, acuminate sheath just below the flower and blooms in the springon an erect,to 18" [45 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered, pilose inflorescence.

Synonyms Arachnorchis lobata (Fitzg.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001; Calonema lobata (Fitzg.) Szlach. 2001; Calonemorchis lobata (W.Fitzg.) Szlach. 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchids of Australia Riley & Banks 2002