Painted Fingers at Booderee National Park1
Identification history
| Caladenia catenata | 29 Apr 2018 | AaronClausen |
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3 comments
NicholasdeJong
wrote:
5 May 2018
Hi Aaron I have compared your Caladenia photos with mine and based on the flowering time: May-July and the red on the inside of the column, I think your Caladenias are Caladenia picta. Caladenia catenata is less common in the region, less coastal, with a green front column and also flowers in August - September. I have previously had my Caladenia picta (they are the same as yours) confirmed by Alan Stephenson and the Sydney herbarium. I would imagine flowering time to have been an important isolating mechanism in the evolutionary separation of these two species. NIck
AaronClausen
wrote:
5 May 2018
Legend Nick, thanks heaps for sussing this out. Good to know it's C. picta.
MikeLeggett
wrote:
15 Jul 2018
Flowering time is conclusive for C.picta, recently reclassified as Petacochilus pictus. Aaron, do an enlargement of the centre of the flower to confirm the column is red on the front.
Location information
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- AaronClausen Recorded by
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Collections
Plants Orchids AaronClausen South Coast NatureMapr
Species information
- Caladenia picta Scientific name
- Painted Fingers Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 108 images trained Machine learning
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In flower
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Synonyms
Petalochilus pictus Caladenia pictus
