Caladenia lowanensis G.W.Carr 1991 SUBGENUS Calonema ( Benth. ) Hopper & A.P.Br.2000 Photo courtesy of Cathy Powers and Her AUSTRALIAN TERRESTRIAL ORCHIDS & OTHER FLORA & FAUNA - Banjorah Website

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Common Name Lowan's Caladenia - Wimmera Spider Orchid

Flower Size 1 3/5" [4 cm]

This small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial species is known only from Kiata in the Little Desert of Victoria state Australia, in sparse forests where it favours red-brown sandy-loam soil and blooms in the spring on an erect, 4.8" to 10" [12 to 25 cm] long, single flowered erect inflorescence and is thought to be pollinated by pseudo-copulation perpetrated by the male thynnid wasp.

Synonyms Arachnorchis lowanensis ( G.W.Carr ) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001;

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