Caladenia parva

Flowering plant 5–15 cm tall. Leaf 3–10 cm long, 5–10 mm wide, often spotted red at base. Flowers 1 or 2; perianth segments 2–4 cm long, green with red central stripe, sepals bearing thickened yellowish brown apical osmophores 3–6 mm long; dorsal sepal erect, 1.5–2 mm wide, tip drooping; lateral sepals projected forwards stiffly, parallel or crossed, asymmetric, dilated at base, 2.5–3 mm wide, tapered to a filiform tail; petals deflexed, 1–2 mm wide. Labellum loosely hinged, curved forward with lateral lobes erect and tip of mid-lobe curved under, prominently 3-lobed, 10–15 mm long and 10–12 mm wide (when flattened), green at base, grading to white then with a dark purple mid-lobe; larger comb-teeth on lateral lobes 2–3 mm long, ending below anther tip, mid-lobe irregularly and broadly toothed or scalloped; lamina calli in 4 sparse rows extending onto base of mid-lobe, linear to narrowly club-shaped, to 2 mm long at base of labellum, shorter and with broader heads towards apex. Flowers Sep.–Nov