Victorian Naturalist 124: 124 (2007) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Endemic
Establishment means:Native
Threat status:EPBC: critically endangered (CR); Victoria: endangered (e); listed in Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988
Flowering plant 15–20 cm tall. Leaf 8–10 cm long, 4–8 mm wide. Flower solitary; perianth segments 2.7–4.5 cm long, pale yellowish with red striae; dorsal sepal erect, lateral sepals and petals divergent, tips drooping; dorsal sepal flattened at base, 2–3 mm wide, tapered to a filiform, clubbed tail, club 4–6 mm long, with dark red-purple, globose, contiguous, sessile glands; lateral sepals flattened at base, 4–6 mm wide, tapered to short filiform clubbed tails, clubs 0.5–1.5 mm long, similar to those of dorsal sepal; petals shorter than sepals, flattened at base, 2–3 mm wide, tapered to an acuminate apex. Labellum curved forward with apex recurved, lamina ovate-lanceolate, obscurely 3-lobed, 15–17 mm long and 9–10 mm wide (when flattened), mostly yellowish with a deep reddish apex; marginal calli on lateral lobes, red, linear, c. 1 mm long, diminishing in size and merging towards the apex; lamina calli in 4 or 6 rows, dull red, not crowded, extending onto base of mid-lobe, foot-shaped, to 1.7 mm long at base of lamina, decreasing in size towards apex. Flowers Oct.
VRiv. Endemic to Victoria where known only from a steep forested slaty hillside near Whitfield in the north-east.
Known from a single locality and up to 35 plants; regarded as critically endangered.
Caladenia cremna is most similar to C. australis, which has longer osmophores on all the sepals and more numerous, longer, linear marginal teeth on the labellum.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Victorian Riverina | present | native |
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Victoria |