Caladenia alata
Fairy Orchid at Corang, NSW
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| Caladenia alata | MattM | 4 Oct 2023 | |
| Caladenia hillmanii | Tapirlord | 29 Sep 2023 | |
| Caladenia carnea | CarbonAI | 29 Sep 2023 | |
| Caladenia sp. | NedJohnston | 29 Sep 2023 |
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Resembled C. hillmanii I’ve seen at the coast.
3 comments
29 Sep 2023
C. hillmanii is supposedly a coastal species that occurs on sandy soils. C. hillmanii is meant to have a diameter >20mm so your plants would be on the small side for the species. I believe this may be C. alata; which is associated with damp heath and woodland and has smaller flowers than C. hillmanii. C. alata apparently hybridises with C. carnea and it is possible these plants are hybrids, especially with the pinker flowers. Unfortunately I am not very familiar with either C. hillmanii or C. alata so I am hesitant to make a confirmation either way.
29 Sep 2023
There were two clumps of these plants both of which were in damp heath, and there were carnea growing next to one of them so definately meets the conditions for an alata-carnea hybrid. And yeah, I've always thought of hillmanii and alata as coastal species but hillmanii has a pretty restricted range and habitat, much more than alata it so it would be suprising to get hillmanii there.
4 Oct 2023
I asked Lachlan Copeland about this one and he reckons it’s just a regular C. alata. He also said that the “type form is actually pink like that” photographed plant.
Location information
- Maps Morton National Park (CNM portion)
- Places Corang, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 Abundance
- NedJohnston Recorded by
- Yes In flower
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Species information
- Caladenia alata Scientific name
- Fairy Orchid Common name
- Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 794.2m Recorded at altitude
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In flower
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