Caladenia mesocera

Caladenia mesocera Hopper & A.P.Br.

Caladenia multiclavia var. brevicuspis; Drakonorchis mesocera

Narrow-lipped Dragon Orchid

Caladenia barbarossa (Dragon Orchids)

Stephen Hopper & Andrew Brown in Nuytsia 14:171,172, Fig.37 (2001)

East Yuna to south of Norseman, growing in sandy and sandy-clay soil on salt lake margins, granite outcrops, rocky hills and surrounding shrublands.

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An inland species 80–250 mm high with a ground-hugging, scarcely hairy leaf 40–80 mm long by 4–10 mm wide and one (rarely two) creamy-white, greenish-yellow and red flowers 20–30 mm across.

It is distinguished from other members of the Caladenia barbarossa complex by its long, narrow labellum with distinctive reclined horns.

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