Summary ³

Caladenia alata, commonly known as fairy orchid or pink fingers is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is found in south-eastern Australia and New Zealand. It is a ground orchid with small, usually short-lived flowers, which have relatively stiffly held petals and sepals and reddish-purple bars on the labellum.

Habitat ⁴

Scrubland. Mainly beneath Kanuka and Manuka

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1. (c) antisense, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/antisense-pics/10830618785/
2. (c) Bill Campbell, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Bill Campbell
3. Adapted by tangatawhenua from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caladenia_alata
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More Info

• iNaturalist NZ taxon page
• Atlas of Living Australia
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• New Zealand Plant Conservation Network
• NZ native orchid key
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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