Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Short-eared Donkey Orchid (Diuris decrementa) is an attractive winter-to-spring flowering terrestrial orchid endemic to the inland clay flats and wandoo woodlands of southwestern Western Australia. Characterized by its golden-yellow flowers marked with intricate...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Broad-lipped Spider Orchid (Caladenia applanata) is a handsome and distinctive terrestrial orchid native to the exposed coastal cliffs and limestone ridges of southwestern Western Australia. Recognized by its unusually broad, flattened labellum and stiffly held...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Pouched Leek Orchid (Prasophyllum cyphochilum) is an attractive and sweetly scented terrestrial orchid native to the extensive sandy kwongan heaths and open mallee woodlands of south-western Australia. Producing a tall, dense cylindrical spike of upside-down,...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Shy Sun Orchid (Thelymitra graminea) is a graceful and vivid sun orchid native to the seasonally inundated claypans, swamp edges, and mossy granite seeps of south-western Australia. Famed for its brilliant azure-blue star flowers that open only on warm, sunny...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Salt Lake Spider Orchid (Caladenia exilis) is an ethereal and hardy terrestrial orchid exquisitely adapted to survive in the salt-fringed woodlands and tea-tree thickets bordering Western Australia’s ancient inland paleodrainage systems. Bearing delicate,...
