Caladenia nana Endl. 1846 Photo courtesy of Ron Heberle and the Thelymitra Page of The Species Orchid Society of Western Australia

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Common Name The Dwarf Caladenia

Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]

Often cited as a synonym of C reptans. This Southwestern Australian orchid is a miniature, cold to warm growing, colony-forming terrestrial that blooms in the spring after a grassfire has past the previous summer ona 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, pubescent, single flowered apically swollen inflorescence.

Synonyms Caladeniastrum nanum (Endl.) Szlach. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005

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