Citation: Fitzg., Aust. Orchids 1, 2 (1876).

Synonymy: Stegostyla cucullata

Common name: Hooded caladenia.

Description:
Very slender plant 10-25 cm high, often wiry-stemmed; leaf linear, 10-25 cm long, sparsely hairy.

Flowers 2-10, rarely solitary, 10-35 mm diam., on slender 1-3 cm long pedicels; perianth-segments greenish-brown or purple, glandular on the exterior, white inside; dorsal sepal strongly cucullate, often obtuse, 7-10 mm long; lateral sepals spreading, 9-12 mm long; petals spreading, narrower and shorter than the sepals, variable in length; labellum 3-lobed, the basal portion very shortly erect and the tip very shortly recurved, the surface minutely scabrous-denticulate; lateral lobes erect, broad and rounded with the frontal margins crenulate, stained deep-mauve; mid-lobe broad, crenulate or deeply toothed often to the extreme tip, the teeth minutely scabrous-denticulate; tip acute, deep-mauve; calli in 4 regular rows, very stout, clavate, the head granular; basal calli yellow-headed, intermediate calli deep-purple or mauve, the anterior ones purple, pink or white, sessile, often crowded, extending almost to the apex; column broad, abruptly bent forward in the upper third, widely winged above, the wings slightly incurved.

Published illustration: Fitzgerald (1876) Australian orchids, vol. 1, pt 7; Gray (1971) Victorian native orchids, 2:24; Woolcock (1984) Australian terrestrial orchids, pl. 23B.

Distribution:  In S. Aust. it occurs in small groups in deep sand under Eucalyptus baxteri and extending no more than 20 km from the Vic. border. Uncommon. S.Aust.: SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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