Caladenia fitzgeraldii

Flowering plant 12–20 cm tall. Leaf 6–10 cm long, 5–12 mm wide. Flower solitary; perianth segments 2–3 cm long, greenish cream with some pale red stripes; sepals 2–3 mm wide at base, tapered to filiform, clubbed tails, clubs 2–5 mm long, with dark red, globose to spherical, sessile glands which are mostly tightly packed and contiguous; lateral sepals divergent, stiffly deflexed; petals spreading to stiffly deflexed, shorter than sepals, flattened at base, tapered to an acuminate apex. Labellum curved forward with apex recurved and lateral lobes curved upwards, lamina broad-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, very obscurely 3-lobed, 11–13 mm long and 7–8 mm wide (when flattened), reddish distally, greenish cream towards the base; lateral lobes entire around curved base, then with marginal calli linear to triangular, mostly to 0.5 mm long, diminishing in size towards entire or slightly irregular mid-lobe; lamina calli in 4 rows, extending about half way to labellum apex, linear or foot-shaped, to 1 mm long at base of lamina, decreasing in size towards apex. Flowers Sep.–Oct.