Caladenia sp. aff. fragrantissima (Central Victoria)

Flowering plant to c. 40 cm tall. Leaf to 20 cm long, 13 mm wide. Flowers 1 or 2, strongly spicily-scented; perianth segments 55–65 cm long, pale to yellowish green with dark red to blackish glandular tips; sepals flattened at base, 2–4 mm wide, evenly tapered to a long tail sparsely to moderately densely covered in glands and/or glandular hairs; petals slightly shorter than sepals but otherwise similar. Labellum curved forward with apex recurved and lateral lobes erect, lamina ovate, obscurely 3-lobed, ca 16 mm long and 11 mm wide (when flattened), cream with reddish to purplish margins and calli; margins of lateral lobes fringed with linear calli to 2 mm long, margins of mid-lobe with shorter calli becoming tooth-like near tip; lamina calli evenly spaced in 4 or 6 rows, usually confined to basal two-thirds of lamina, slender, hooked, c. 1 mm long near base, decreasing in size towards apex. Flowers Oct.