Caladenia littoricola is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It was first formally described in 2015 by Robert Bates who published the description in Australian Orchid Review from a specimen collected near Nora Creina.[1] This caladenia occurs in the south-east region of South Australia.[2] Bates derived the specific epithet from the Latin littoricola meaning "of the coast", referring to the coastal habitat of this orchid.[1] Littoricola is a combination of the Latin littus (genitive littoris) meaning "seashore" or "beach"[3] (alternatively written as litus, genitive litoris[4]: 205 [5]: 442 ) and -cola meaning "-dweller".[3]

Caladenia littoricola
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Tribe: Diurideae
Genus: Caladenia
Species:
C. littoricola
Binomial name
Caladenia littoricola
Synonyms[1]

Petalochilus littoricola (R.J.Bates) R.J.Bates

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Caladenia littoricola". APNI. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Census of Australian Plants - Caladenia". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  3. ^ a b Francis Aubie Sharr (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings. Kardinya, Western Australia: Four Gables Press. p. 241. ISBN 9780958034180.
  4. ^ Short, Emma; George, Alex (2013). A Primer of Botanical Latin with Vocabulary. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107693753.
  5. ^ Stearn, William T. (1992). Botanical Latin - History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. ISBN 0881923214.