Caladenia oenochila G.W.Carr 1991 Photo courtesy of Colin Rowan

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Common Name The Wine-Red Lip Caladenia - Red Lipped Spider Orchid

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

This small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial species is from Victoria state, Australia where it favours mixed eucalypt forests with higher rainfall and blooms in the spring in situ on a 12" [30 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence and is thought to be pollinated by pseudocopulation by the male Thynnid wasp.

Synonyms Arachnorchis lindleyana (Rchb.f.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001; Arachnorchis oenochila (G.W.Carr) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001; Caladenia filamentosa Lindl. 1840; Caladenia lindleyana (H.G.Reichb.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1989; Caladenia patersonii var. lindleyana Rchb.f. 1871; Calonema lindleyanum (Rchb.f.) Szlach. 2001; Calonemorchis lindleyana (Rchb.f.) Szlach., Polish Bot. J. 46: 140 (2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;