Common name: Hooded Caladenia
Caladenia cucullata Fitzg. APNI* Synonyms: Stegostyla cucullata (Fitzg.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. APNI*
Description: Terrestrial herb.
Leaf linear, to 20 cm long and 5 mm wide, sparsely hairy.
Inflorescence to 25 cm high, < 6-flowered. Sepals and petals to 1.5 cm long, broad, the outer surface with greenish to brownish sessile glands, the inner surface glabrous, white; dorsal sepal broad-ovate, hooding the column. Labellum ± ovate, 5–7 mm long, to 4 mm wide, obscurely 3-lobed, white with reddish purple stains towards the base with a dark purple spot at the tip; lateral lobes with crenulate margins; midlobe with margins with calli to tip; calli dark, stout, with stalks and swollen heads scabrous. Central calli in 4 rows, bearing clubbed, granular heads, yellow to purple; calli stalks becoming shorter towards the tip until heads appear warty-sessile. Column abruptly bent forward in upper third with wide, undulating apical wings, red spotted; basal glands absent.
Flowering: September–November
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on ridges and slopes in sclerophyll forest in shallow stony soils; south from Dubbo.
NSW subdivisions: ?NC, NT, CT, ST, ?NWS, CWS, SWS
Other Australian states: Vic. S.A.
Text by P. Bernhardt
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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