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Caladenia nothofageti

White Fingers

Main Ridge Track, Wainuiomata 23 November 2019. Photo: Bill Campbell
Photo: Bill Campbell
Recorded distribution
Recorded distribution

Plant

To 15cm tall bearing 1-2 flowers, leaf to 20 cm long.

Flowers

To 15 cm across, pale green to white with 2 rows of calli and flat marginal calli on the midlobe.

Flowering

Late November - January.

Habitat

Typically in red beech forest, montane, also in well lit forest and scrub. Sparsely distributed in widely scattered small colonies. From Wellington southwards.

Conservation

Not threatened.

Notes

Like an albino form of C. chlorostyla.

Key features

Flowers white without red markings.

Photos

Main Ridge Track, Wainuiomata 23 November 2019. Photo: Bill Campbell
Main Ridge Track, Wainuiomata 23 November 2019. Photo: Bill Campbell
Main Ridge Track, Wainuiomata 29 November 2011. Photo: Bill Campbell
Main Ridge Track, Wainuiomata 23 November 2019. Photo: Bill Campbell
Main Ridge Track, Wainuiomata 7 December 2015. Photo: Bill Campbell
Wainuiomata - Wellington. Photo: Ian St George
Photo: Eric Scanlen
Photo: Eric Scanlen
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