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Smooth-billed duck orchid

Caleana terminalis

Smooth-billed duck orchid
Photo: Benjamin Anderson, CC BY 4.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Caleana terminalis, commonly known as smooth-billed duck orchid is a species of orchid endemic to a small area near the Murchison River in the south-west of Western Australia. It has a single smooth leaf and usually only a single greenish yellow and red flower. It is distinguished by its slightly humped labellum, with calli only on its outer one fifth.

Where it grows

Caleana terminalis grows in sandy soil in shrubland between the Pinjarega Nature Reserve and Nerren Nerren station in the Geraldton Sandplains biogeographic region.

Other Caleana plants

Alcock's duck orchid · Brockman's duck orchid · Little duck orchid · Sandplain duck orchid · Slender-leafed duck orchid · Granite duck orchid · Hort's duck orchid · Midget duck orchid · Flying duck orchid · Small duck orchid · Small duck orchid · Esperance Duck Orchid

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caleana terminalis 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.

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