Caladenia atkinsonii Rodway (1923:77)
White-lipped orchid
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Now believed to represent a freak individual of C. carnea (POWO, 2018 fide Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2025).
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of C. carnea) (POWO, 2018 fide Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2025)
Distribution & Habitat
Tasmania, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Rodway. (1923). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1922, pp. 77, pl. 8.
Other references:
Department of the Environment (2016). Caladenia atkinsonii in Species Profile and Threats Database, Department of the Environment, Canberra. Available from: http://www.environment.gov.au/sprat. Accessed Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:24:21 +1000.
Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Hnatiuk, R. J. (1990). Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series 11: 1-650.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
POWO. (2018). Plants of the World online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://e-monocot.org/.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 3 August 2025]
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.