Plant: To 15cm high. Slender stem very hairy. Leaves: long and thin, usually covered in hairs.

Flowers: Only 11mm tall from lateral sepal tips to dorsal sepal tip. Sepals obtuse, but lateral sepals deflected to almost touch the ovary; one marginal callus to the base of the midlobe (not two as in Caladenia bartlettii ), and has deflexed lateral sepals and midlobe margins.

Flowering: November.

Habitat: Sandy track-sides in dappled shade.

Conservation: Not Known. Rare.

Notes: Recorded from the Shenstone Block and Scott Point at Te Paki, and from Sweetwater near Ninety Mile Beach.

Key features: none, cf. C. bartlettii.