Caladenia and allied orchids

Habitat: Open manuka/kanuka scrub.

Key features: Orange tip to labellum, often curled under; variable flower colour - usually white but from pink to deep red, often at the same site.

Habitat: Scrub and open forest in dappled shade, on road and track sides. North Cape to Nelson.

Key features: Small size and broad, round tipped petals and sepals, strong pink to dark red, fading towards the base.

Habitat: Lowland to montane in well lit native forest, manuka scrub and exotic pine.

Key features: Generally larger size, green column top and extra calli on the labellum, alongside two main rows between the labellum wings.

Habitat: Well lit scrub and track sides. Far north mainly but isolated colonies occur in Coromandel, Uruti and Aorangi ranges.

Key features: Distinguished by its particular pale pink colour and tepals that abruptly taper to a very acute tip.

Habitat: Lowland to subalpine scrub, well lit native or pine forest.

Key features: Pale greenish-white flowers with long lateral calli on the midlobe.

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

Key features: Flowers white without red markings.

Habitat: Open scrub or forest; lowland to montane. Throughout the North Island and in the northern South Island

Key features: Dark maroon-black calli on the labellum midlobe.

Habitat: Montane scrub; sphagnum wetlands at lower altitudes. Mt. Moehau southwards.

Key features: Two different sized hairy leaves and quite large white flower.

Habitat: Damp to wet montane, cool beech, podocarp or introduced pine forest. Central North Island southwards.

Key features: Star-like flower, relatively broad leaf above ground level and clasping the stem.