Caladenia transitoria

Flowering plant slender, 8–16 cm tall, usually purplish. Leaf linear, 6–10 cm long, 1–2 mm wide. Flowers 1–3, cream-green to yellowish green; ovary 5–7 mm long; perianth segments 7–10 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, acute, both sides with scattered glands; dorsal sepal linear-obovate, more or less hooded, curved at about the middle, embracing the column; lateral sepals and petals spreading or curved upwards, narrow-elliptic to narrow-lanceolate, asymmetric, lateral sepals broader than petals, divergent. Labellum on short claw, 3-lobed, 5–6 mm long, whitish to pink, with red or purple transverse bars; lateral lobes with a wedge-shaped anterior corner, entire; mid-lobe triangular, recurved, glandular, dark purple, fringed with stalked, granular-headed, purple calli becoming sessile towards apex; lamina calli in 4 crowded rows, extending from base to apex, becoming sessile near apex, heads purple and granular. Column incurved, narrowly winged at base, expanded above, with red or purple markings; anther with short point. Flowers Oct.–Nov.