Scientific Name: Caladenia echidnachila Endemic Having a natural distribution confined to a particular geographic region
Common Name: fawn spider-orchid
Family Classification (Clade): Monocots
Family: Orchidaceae
Form Description: Leaf narrowly lanceolate, base purple blotched, hairy. Scape wiry, hairy.
Height (m): 0.25 – 0.4
Flowers: Flowers 1-2, 70-110mm across, fawn to pale tawny yellow, with pale reddish lines and darker sepaline caudae, labellum cream to yellowish, sometimes with red suffusions, calli dark red, column translucent with reddish markings.
Fruit: Papery capsule
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Habitat Notes
Coastal scrub, heathland and open eucalypt forest.
Site Tolerance
Dry, Exposed, Shady
Soil Tolerance
Clay, Loam, Sandy, Well-drained
General Notes
Labellum likened to the tongue of the echidna. Fire frequency moderate to high.
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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.