Caladenia colorata

Flowering plant 10–30 cm tall. Leaf 4–10 cm long, 5–9 mm wide, blotched with red at base. Flower usually solitary, with a musky fragrance; perianth segments 2.8–4 cm long, cream-green with maroon labellum, sometimes wholly blood red or mauve to pink with dark glandular tails; sepals flattened at base, 2–4 mm wide, tapered to a long tail, terminal osmophore 8–12 mm long densely covered with dark sessile or stalked clavoid glands; petals shorter than sepals, tapered to linear-filiform, heavily glandular cauda. Labellum curved forward with apex recurved and lateral lobes erect, lamina ovate, very obscurely 3-lobed, 10–14 mm long and 7–8 mm wide (when flattened), wholly red, cream and red or mauve and red; distal margins of lateral lobes fringed with linear calli to 1.5 mm long; margins of mid-lobe with numerous short, tooth-like, white-tipped calli decreasing in size towards apex; lamina calli in 4–6 rows, the central ones extending onto the mid-lobe, narrow, foot-shaped, to 1.3 mm long at base of lamina, decreasing in size towards apex. Flowers Aug.–Sep.