Arachnorchis Hybrids
 
I thought this was a hybrid for quite awhile until I discovered a photo of it in the Orchid book by Jeanes and Backhouse.  Since then I have seen it in a couple of more locations out west, so it is thus less rare than I first thought.  The pink colouration makes it look different to the normal Parva - but a parva it still is.

 

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Western Districts - October 2005. 

 

 

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