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Caladenia leptochila
Caladenia leptochila, commonly known s narrow-lipped spider-orchid or narrow-lipped caladenia, is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single slender, hairy leaf and one or two yellowish-green and reddish-brown flowers.
Subspecies dentata is found in the Flinders Ranges where it grows below shrubs on forest slopes at altitudes of 700–800 m (2,300–2,600 ft), and subsp. leptochila grows in clay or gravelly soils in shrubby forest in the Mount Lofty Ranges. The latter subspecies is thought to have been common in Victoria in the past but is now probably extinct in that state.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caladenia leptochila by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
