Paracaleana parvula

Paracaleana parvula Hopper & A.P.Br.

Caleana parvula; Sullivania parvula

Esperance Duck Orchid

Paracaleana nigrita (Flying Duck Orchids)

Stephen Hopper & Andrew Brown in Austral.Syst.Bot. 19:237-238, Fig. 23 (2006)

Gibson to Israelite Bay, growing in deep sand in shrublands.

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A small flowered species 90–180 mm high with broad, smooth leaf 10–30 mm long by 3–5 mm wide and one (rarely two) inverted, greenish-yellow and red flowers 4–6 mm across. The leaf is usually withered at the time of flowering.

It is distinguished from Little Duck Orchid (Paracaleana disjuncta) with which it sometimes grows by its smaller flowers and shorter labellum with the calli confined to the tip.

Priority Two