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Orchid Species: Caladenia clavigera
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Caladenia clavigera is an orchid species identified by A.Cunn. ex Lindl. in 1840.
ORIGIN: This small sized, cold growing terrestrial species is from Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia at elevations of 10 to 250 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This small sized, cold growing terrestrial species is from Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia at elevations of 10 to 250 meters and favors open forest and woodland with well-drained soil where it is widespread and common, growing in loose colonies with a single, linear, pubescent leaf that blooms in the late winter and spring on an erect, 8 to 16 [20 to 40 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence and is thought to be pollinated by pseudo-copulation perpetrated by the male thynnid wasp.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 3/5 inches [4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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