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Showing Caladenia flava subsp. maculata
- APC
- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Lilianae(superordo)
- Asparagales(ordo)
- Orchidaceae(fam.)
- Caladenia(gen.)
- flava(sp.)
- maculata(subsp.)
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Type: Kalbarri National Park, 30 km east-north-east of Kalbarri, 300 m south-east of Z Bend Car Park, 27 39'S, 114 28'E, Western Australia, 24 August 1983, S. D. Hopper 3334 (holo: PERTH 00248355; iso: CBG).
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Etymology: "blotched, alluding to the brown-fawn blotching on the petals and sepals"
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Etymology: "...flowers which are irregularly marked with fawny-brown blotches rather than longitudinal maroon suffusions and lines. It is this feather which gives rise to the specific name 'maculata' meaning spotted or blotched."
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APC Dist.: WA
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Etymology: "From the Latin maculatus (spotted, blotched), in reference to the brown-fawn blotching on the dorsal sepal and petals."