!Caladenia carnea R.Br. 1810 SUBGENUS Petalochilus Photo by © John Varigos and His Orchid webpage
White flowered Variety Photos by Cathy Powers and herAUSTRALIAN TERRESTRIAL ORCHIDS OTHER FLORA & FAUNA BANJORAH Website
Plant and Flower in situ New Caledonia Photos by © Edouard Faria all taken in New Caledonia
Common Name The Flesh-Red Caladenia - The Pink Fingers Orchid
Flower Size 1 1/2" to 2" [3.75 cm to 5 cm]
Found in Sulawesi, New Guinea, New South Wales, Queensland, Southern Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria Australia as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid occuring in most types of forest habitat at elevations of 1200 to 1800[Java] and in Australia at elevations of 10 to 1000 meters, at times growing in what appears to be rock-hard dirt with one or more, more or less globose tubers giving rise to a [4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, coarsely hairy stem basally carrying a single full sized, linear, long pilose, acute leaf and a similar much smaller one half way up that flowers in the spring on an erect, to 12" [30 cm] long, one to two flowered inflorescence with sometimed musky scented flowers and are thought to be generally pollinated by bees.
Synonyms Arethusa catenata Sm. 1806; Caladenia alba R. Br. 1810; Caladenia angustata Hook.f. 1858; Caladenia atkinsonii Rodway 1923; Caladenia carnea var. subulata Nicholls 1945 ; Caladenia catenata forma carnea ( R.Br. ) N.Halle 1977; Caladenia javanica Benn. ex Ridl. 1885; Petalochilus carneus ( R.Br. ) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 5 1958 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 3 1960; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 1966; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 drawing fide; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 as C carnea var subulata drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; drawing fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2001; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe Neo-Caledonienne D'Orchidophile as C catenata 1995 photo good; Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 2 1999 photo; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Australia Riley & Banks 2002; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Petalochilus carneus photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;
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