Citation: Rupp, Victorian Nat. 58:199 (1942).

Synonymy: C. clavigera sensu Fitzg., Aust. Orchids 2, 1 (1876), non Cunn.; C. huegelii Reichb. f. var. huegelii sensu J. Weber & Bates in J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 397 (1978), partly, non Reichb. f.

Common name: None

Description:
Stems slender, 10-60 cm high, shortly hairy; leaf broad-linear to linear-lanceolate, 7-12 cm long, 8-20 mm wide; stem bract lanceolate, 1.5-2 cm long, sheathing, reddish; floral bract linear, 2-2.5 cm long, green, not reaching the ovary nor sheathing.

Flower usually solitary, 6-10 cm diam., yellow or greenish and maroon, sometimes wholly pale-green, segments 2-3 mm broad, tapering into a filiform point, with a reddish vein along the median line; dorsal sepal erect, 2-5 cm long, linear-lanceolate, greenish with a conspicuous deep-red clavate tip; lateral sepals spreading rigidly, linear basally, 4-5.5 cm long, conspicuously clavate; petals narrower than the sepals, 3.5-5 cm long, spreading or deflexed, not clavate; labellum appearing ovate-acute, 1-1.5 cm long and wide, undivided, on a movable claw, the lamina rather flat, the basal portion yellowish, the anterior deep-red and recurved; margins along the posterior half fimbriate, then crenulate to the tip; calli mostly in the lower half, in 4 rows, clubbed, usually red; column incurved, its wings moderately wide towards the apex; the 2 basal glands globular; the anther almost acuminate.

Published illustration: Fitzgerald (1876) Australian orchids, vol. 1, pt 2.

Distribution:  Occurs in small groups in fertile soils in lightly forested country.   Qld; N.S.W.; ?Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — early Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Putative hybrids have been reported with C. patersonii (FR) and C. gladiolata (FR).

Author: Not yet available