Caladenia carnea

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Caladenia carnea']

• English: Pink fingers orchid

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: monocots • Ordo: Asparagales • Familia: Orchidaceae • Subfamilia: Orchidoideae • Tribus: Diurideae • Subtribus: Caladeniinae • Genus: Caladenia • Species: Caladenia carnea R.Br. (1810)

Synonyms

Homotypic synonyms Caladenia catenata f. carnea (R.Br.) N.Hallé, in Fl. Nouv.-Caléd. 8: 460 (1977) Petalochilus carneus (R.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem., Orchadian 13: 406 (2001) Heterotypic synonyms Caladenia angustata Hook.f., Fl. Tasman. 2: 30 (1858) Caladenia atkinsonii Rodway, Pap. & Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania 1922: 77 (1923) Caladenia carnea var. subulata William Henry Nicholls, Victorian Naturalist 62: 61 (1945)

Type species

Flowers

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  Caladenia carnea
  Australia - Canberra
  Black Mountain
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  Caladenia carnea
  Australia - Canberra
  Black Mountain
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  Caladenia carnea
  Australia -
  South West Rocks
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  Caladenia carnea
  Australia - Canberra
  Black Mountain
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  Caladenia carnea
  Australia - Canberra
  Black Mountain
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  Caladenia carnea
  Australia - Canberra
  Black Mountain
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  Caladenia carnea
  Australia - Canberra
  Black Mountain
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  Caladenia carnea
  Australia - Canberra
  Black Mountain
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  Caladenia carnea
  Tasmania -
  Southern Mid-lands

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  Caladenia carnea
  Aberrant flower
  Victoria -
  Ararat

Botanical illustrations

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  Caladenia carnea
  volume 3 pt. 2 plate 124 left in:
  Joseph Dalton Hooker
  Flora Antarctica - vol. 3 pt. 2
  (Orchidaceae)
  (1860)
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  Caladenia carnea
  plate 7630 in:
  Curtis's Bot. Magazine
  (Orchidaceae),
  vol. 124,
  (1898)
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  Caladenia carnea
  figure 28 in:
  Johannes Jacobus Smith:
  Die Orchideen von Java
  Figuren-Atlas - 1. Heft
  Leiden (1908)

Native distribution areas

Reference: Brummitt, R.K. (2001) TDGW - World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition Continental: Asia-Tropical Regional: Malesia Sulawesi. Regional: Papuasia New Guinea. Continental: Australasia Regional: Australia New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria. Regional: New Zealand Antipodean Islands, Chatham Islands, New Zealand North, New Zealand South. Continental: Pacific Regional: Southwestern Pacific New Caledonia.

References

Description of taxon

• Brown, R. (1810) Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae 324.

Selected Bibliography

• Hopper, D. & Brown, A.P. (2004) Robert Brown's Caladenia revisited, including a revision of its sister genera Cyanicula, Ericksonella and Pheladenia (Caladeniinae: Orchidaceae), Australian Systematic Botany 17(2) 171 - 240.
• Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) (2001) Genera Orchidacearum Volume 2: Orchidoideae (Part one); page 90 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198507100
  

Selected Weblinks

Wikispecies has an entry on: Caladenia carnea.

• Kew Gardens 'World Checklist' link : Caladenia carnea
• eMonocot link: Caladenia carnea
• Tropicos link: Caladenia carnea
• International Plant Names Index link: Caladenia carnea
• The Plant List link: Caladenia carnea
• APNI link: Caladenia carnea