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Common Name The Common Caladenia - Early Caps

Flower Size 3/5" [1.5 cm]

Found mainly in western Victoria, Australia, Anglesea District, at elevations of 50 to 450 meters in open forests with shrubby understory as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a single, thin, narrow, linear leaf that blooms in the early spring on an erect, to 5.2" [13 cm] tall, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Petalochilus vulgaris (D.L.Jones) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001

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