Caladenia carnea

Flowering plant slender, 8–25 cm tall. Leaf linear, 5–15 cm long, shorter than flowering stem, 2–4 mm wide. Flowers 1–5, usually pink, sometimes white; ovary 5–10 mm long; perianth segments mostly greenish or pink on outside, with numerous sessile and stalked glands; dorsal sepal erect, sometimes recurved, linear, c. 10–15 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, usually more than 3 times as long as broad, apex bluntly acute to acute; lateral sepals spreading, sometimes slightly asymmetric, lanceolate, 10–17 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; petals spreading, 10–13 mm long, 3–3.5 mm wide. Labellum sessile, 3-lobed, 5–8 mm long, 5–8 mm wide (when flattened), white or pinkish, with prominent transverse red bars; lateral lobes prominent, broad, margins entire, anterior margin rounded; mid-lobe small, recurved, triangular, usually about same length (when straightened) as lateral lobes, toothed or with marginal calli or rarely entire, yellow at apex; lamina calli in 2–4 rows up to base of mid-lobe, stalked and clubbed, yellow. Column incurved, narrowly winged, barred with dark-red; anther with a long point. Flowers Aug.–Nov.