New Zealand Native Orchids
 
 
Caladenia nothofageti
 

 

Caladenia nothofageti
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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 to 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 plain, pale without red markings.