Caladenia venusta

Flowering plant 20–60 cm tall. Leaf 10–18 cm long, 8–12 mm wide, reddish at base. Flowers 1–2(–3), fragrance resembling mouldy oranges; perianth segments 4.5–10 cm long, white to cream with brownish glandular tips, lateral sepals and petals drooping; sepals flattened at base, 2–7 mm wide, abruptly tapered to a long tail densely covered in glandular hairs; petals shorter than sepals but otherwise similar. Labellum curved forward with apex recurved and lateral lobes erect, lamina ovate, obscurely 3-lobed, 16–25 mm long and 10–15 mm wide (when flattened), white or cream with deep-red calli; margins of lateral lobes fringed with linear calli mostly 2–3.5 mm long, margins of mid-lobe with shorter calli becoming tooth-like near tip; lamina calli in 4 or 6 rows, extending well onto mid-lobe, narrow, foot-shaped, to c. 2 mm long at base of lamina, decreasing in size towards apex. Flowers Sep.–Nov.