Leptoceras
Leptoceras menziesii, commonly known as rabbit orchid, is a plant in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and the only member of the genus Leptoceras. It is a slender plant, usually found in large colonies and which only flowers after fire. The flowers are small, white, pink and red on a stem up to tall and is endemic to southern Australia. It was one of the first orchids from Western Australia to be described and was given the name Caladenia menziesii, a name still used by some authorities.
Description
The rabbit orchid is a tuberous perennial herb growing to a height of, sometimes with one to three flowers. The leaf is glabrous, variable in size and shape but mostly lance-shaped to broadly egg-shaped to oblong, long and wide.There are one to three small flowers, sometimes all white but more usually white, pink and red. The top sepal at the back of the flower is about long, dark reddish, spoon-shaped and forms a hood over the column. The back of the dorsal sepal has many glandular hairs. The lower, lateral sepals are white or pink, wide in the middle, taper towards both ends and long. The petals forming the "ears" are erect, purplish-red, very narrow linear in shape but club-shaped on the ends, long and have many glandular hairs. The central labellum is white with pink or red markings, egg-shaped to almost circular, about long and has a short claw. The labellum has 2 to 4 rows of calli with large heads. The column is erect with wide wings and pink markings. The species flowers from August to November, much more prolifically after recent bushfires, and delayed in some places until after rainfall.