Scientific Name: Caladenia aurantiaca

Common Name: orangetip fingers

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Threatened Species Status: Endangered

Permit: It is an offence to collect, disturb, damage or destroy this species unless under permit.

Form Description: Leaf erect, narrowly linear, very thin and wiry, sparsely hairy.

Height (m): 0.05 – 0.17

Flowers: Small white flowers with widely spreading petals, lateral sepals held close together, orange labellum tip and calli. Self pollinating.

Fruit: Papery capsule

Municipality
Flinders
Plant Communities
Coastal VegetationDry Eucalypt Forest
Habitat Notes

Found on Deal Island and possibly islands in Furneaux Group. Occurs in fire prone habitat.

Site Tolerance

Exposed, Moist

Soil Tolerance

Clay, Loam, Sandy, Well-drained

Frost Tolerance

Tender

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Specialist Method

Seed Information

Seed Treatment Notes

Orchid seeds are very minute yellow, brown or blackish dust-like particles. Orchid seeds are produced within a capsule that splits at maturity and releases thousands to millions of seeds. Dispersed by wind and water and only germinate following infection of the embryo by a suitable mycorrhizal fungus. Very few seeds become mature plants. For more information see Jones, Wapstra, Tonelli, Harris (1999): The Orchids of Tasmania.