Caladenia vulgaris

Flowering plant very slender, 15–36 cm tall. Leaf linear, 15–27 cm long, usually subequal to the flowering stem, 2–3 mm wide, reddish at base. Flowers 1 or 2, dull pink, externally with brownish central band, often only partly opening; ovary c. 7–8 mm long; perianth segments 10–18 mm long, glandular outside, with obtuse tips; dorsal sepal obliquely erect, incurved, linear-oblanceolate, 2–4 mm wide; lateral sepals directed outward and forward, parallel to slightly spreading, fused at base, asymmetrically lanceolate, 3–6 mm wide; petals spreading, asymmetrically ovate-lanceolate, 3–5 mm wide. Labellum sessile, 3-lobed, 5–7 mm long, 5.5–7.5 mm wide (when flattened), white or pink, with narrow red transverse bars; lateral lobes prominent, broad, margins entire; mid-lobe small, recurved in distal half, triangular, slightly shorter (when straightened) than lateral lobes, margins with c. 5 pairs of calli, the basal ones stalked, tip of labellum yellow; lamina calli in 2 rows almost to base of mid-lobe (sometimes in 4 rows at base of labellum), stalked and clubbed, yellow or orange. Column incurved, narrowly winged, whitish green barred with dark-red; anther with prominent short point. Flowers Oct.–Jan.