Caladenia orestes
Caladenia orestes is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to an area in the south of New South Wales. It is a ground orchid with a single leaf and one or two cream-coloured to light reddish flowers. It grows in forest on hillsides around Burrinjuck.
Description
Caladenia orestes is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with a spherical underground tuber and a single linear to lance-shaped leaf, long and wide with a reddish to purplish base. One or two cream coloured to pink or reddish flowers are borne on a flowering stem tall. The dorsal sepals is long, about wide,narrow egg-shaped to elliptic near its base then tapers to a blackish glandular tip. The lateral sepals are long, wide, lance-shaped to egg-shaped near the base then taper to blackish glandular tips. The petals are long, about wide and otherwise similar to the sepals. The lateral sepals and petals spread widely, turn down slightly or droop. The labellum is long, wide and curves forward with its tip strongly curving downwards. There are between 7 and 14 pairs of dark purplish, linear teeth up to long on the sides of the labellum and four or six rows of calli along the mid-line of the labellum, the longest of which are about long and shaped like hockey sticks. Flowering occurs during October and in early November.