Orchidaceae

Slender Onion Orchid

You could easily mistake this common little orchid for grass. A small terrestrial orchid with 10s of tiny flowers crowded along a flowering spike that can grow up tp to 30cm tall.

Hare Orchid

Early flowering species Grows 100-250mm One or two oblong, green purple striped leaves

Fringed Leek Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Fringed Leek Orchid, Prasophyllum fimbria which can be common in the general southwest of WA area but usually only flowers after fire.

Giant Donkey Orchid

Sugar Orchid

Grows 50 - 150mm in height Single Hairy leaf Single small sugary white flower. Although a delicate looking plant, it is a hardy inland species ocurring 50 km or more from the coast,

Dark Banded Greenhood

Common Banded Greenhood Flowers have fleshy appearance Broad flattened sepal Distinctive reddish hood

Caladenia hybrid Spider Orchid

Pink Enamel Orchid

Sugar Orchid

Distinctive orchid Grows 50 - 100mm Single hairy flattened leaf Single sugary white flower

Pink Finger

Leaf narrow-linear, to 15 cm long and 4 mm wide, and sparsely hairy. Inflorescence to 24 cm high, 1–3-flowered. Flowers often sweet to musky scented. Sepals and lateral petals usually 0.8–1.

Slipper orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Slipper orchid, Cryptostylis ovata found all over the southwest of WA especially near rivers and creeks.

Slipper Orchid

Tuberous, perennial, herb, 0.25-0.7 m high. Fl. green & red, Nov to Dec or Jan to Apr. White-grey sand, loam, granite. Sand dunes, outcrops, swamps.

Silky Blue Orchid

Small blue flowers, 2cm across, standing 10 - 15cm tall. Petals smooth and silky in appearance. Strap shaped leaf. Abundant among everlastings.

Purple Pansy Orchid

Grows to 35cm in height. Can have up to eight flowers on one stem. Flowers are often Mauve, Fawn and Purple in colour

Vanilla Orchid

Herbaceous perennial growing to about 20cm high. Distinctive yellow flowers, buds are pink.

Rattle Beaks

Grows in colonies Single long narrow leathery leaf Prominent hood like dorsal sepal

Pink Fingers.

Small terrestrial orchid growing to about 10cm high. Long narrow leaves. Flowers up to 1.5cm across. Labellum with transverse markings. growing in sclerophyll forest on sandstone.

Sun Orchid hybrid

A sun orchid hybrid that was found south of Mullewa amongst some granite pockets. It is a cross between the T antennifera and T petrophila .

Northern Bee Orchid

Grows up to 200-400mm in height. Two to six basal leaves Up to five pale yellow brown marked flowers

Common mignonette orchid

photo by Graeme W.

Dragon Orchid

A small terrestrial orchid, growing to about 25cm high. Petals and sepals are green with a maroon stripe. Labellum covered with maroon hairs.

Exotic spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The vivid white and red orchid is the exotic spider orchid caladenia nivalis, from the dunsborough area.

Cossack Spider Orchid

One of the listed rare species

Common spider orchid

The common white spider orchid, is probably the most misidentified orchid in WA. While common, it has different forms in different areas making for a difficult identification.