Caladenia bartlettii was named by Dan Hatch after Frank Bartlett who pointed it out at his Silverdale home in 1949. Its rounded sepals, four tepals held in a flat plane, its trough-like narrow yellow midlobe and twin stalk-like calli at the base of the midlobe, are enough to identify this denizen of mossy track-sides and road banks in dappled sunlight.
Flowers in October are 12mm across, sometimes in pairs on a red or green stem, 100-180 mm tall with a solitary narrow, hairy leaf about 120mm long.
TF Cheeseman had it as Caladenia minor Hook. f. but Hooker’s 1853 description, type specimen and drawing of C. minor do not match it except for his word “pink” which C. minor is not but “pink” unduly influenced generations of naturalists despite colour being a non-acceptable identifier.
Eric Scanlen
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Caladenia bartlettii
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Caladenia bartlettii
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Caladenia bartlettii
The colour looks correct, until you put on the red/cyan goggles, and then the red component is greatly reduced.
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U stereo: Parallel eye viewing; often needs a stereoscope, or sit well back
X stereo: Cross eye stereo free viewing
Anaglyph image : Use red/cyan goggles
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