Caladenia carnea

Pink Fingers at O'Connor, ACT

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Identification history

	Caladenia carnea	22 Oct 2017	CathB
	Caladenia carnea	16 Oct 2017	GlenRyan

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Only these two plants growing on the side of a track - each with two flowers (so i presumed C. carnea). Have added a couple more images since originally posting to help with ID.

5 comments

GlenRyan wrote:

22 Oct 2017

Just checking if this is indeed C. carnea? Posted it last week but might have slipped through unnoticed ;)

Thanks

Glen

KenT wrote:

22 Oct 2017

Glen, you might want to have a look at the comments Tony Wood has made on this sighting: http://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Sightings/Details/3382259 . Since this site allows for five images per sighting you would help those confirming the identifications by providing images of a wider range of plant characters, unfortunately the characters of importance can often depend on the plant being identified.

GlenRyan wrote:

22 Oct 2017

Thanks for the reply Ken. I hear what you are saying about the photos and the ID - I will add some more images and see if that helps. The reason I thought it might have slipped through unnoticed is when I have posted orchid images before that were hard to identify (C. fuscata v C. carnea - as in the example you link to above) Tony has left a comment about this issue -
http://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Sightings/Details/3382364. With no comment or note at all on this siting I just wasn't sure where it might be up to. I'll add some images that show the two plants with two flowers each (so not sure it would be C. fuscata) and hopefully that will help with an ID.

Cheers

Glen

CathB wrote:

23 Oct 2017

The two flowers and the thickish green stem distinguish this from C. fuscata. For all orchids, it's helpful to have pictures of the whole plant, including leaves.

GlenRyan wrote:

24 Oct 2017

Thanks Cath

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Location information

Maps Bruce Ridge
Places O'Connor, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
15 Oct 2017 04:25 PM Recorded on
GlenRyan Recorded by

Additional information

True In flower
Less than 10cm Plant height

Species information

Caladenia carnea Scientific name
Pink Fingers Common name
Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
759 images trained Machine learning
In flower
External link More information
Synonyms
Petalochilus carneus

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