Dusky Fingers at Point 610
Identification history
| Caladenia fuscata | 8 Oct 2016 | CathB | ||
| Caladenia fuscata | 24 Sep 2016 | CathB | ||
| Unidentified | 24 Sep 2016 | MichaelMulvaney |
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4 comments
CathB
wrote:
25 Sep 2016
It's hard to be sure from the photos, but I suspect this is a peloric form of Caladenia fuscata, where the labellum, instead of being highly modified as usual, has developed to look like a normal petal. I would be interested to know if there were any others around, or if this was a single 'mutant' flower.
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
25 Sep 2016
I was a little confused at what I was looking at but I think there were about 10 other flowers like it in a patch about 10m x 10m
CathB
wrote:
26 Sep 2016
I was intrigued, so went searching and, amazingly, found 4 of these plants. A normal labellum was definitely absent and was replaced by an unmodified petal. The colour was also a bit different - creamy rather than white or pink - and the segments were slightly narrower. I will post some picures separately (sighting 3360244).
Location information
- Maps Gossan Hill Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill
- Survey points Point 610
- Places Bruce, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- MichaelMulvaney Recorded by
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Collections
Plants Orchids MichaelMulvaney Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Caladenia fuscata Scientific name
- Dusky Fingers Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 1103 images trained Machine learning
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In flower
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Petalochilus fuscatus
