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Duck Orchid
1838 painting of Caleana major from Stephan Endlicher's Iconographia.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Orchidoideae
Tribe:	Diurideae
Subtribe:	Drakaeinae
Genus:	Caleana R.Br.
Species:	C. major
Binomial name
Caleana major R.Br.
Synonyms
Caleya major (R.Br.) R.Br. in W.T.Aiton

Caleana major at Kuring-gai Chase National Park, Australia

Caleana, commonly known as the Duck Orchid, is a genus of terrestrial Australian orchids from the Orchidoideae subfamily. As of May 2014, only one species is recognised: Caleana major, native to New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. Two other species (C. minor and C. nigrita) formerly included in this genus are now regarded as members of a different genus, Paracaleana.

Species in this genus are called "duck orchids" because of the form of the labellum. The lip resembles a flying duck with clearly expressed beak. It is pollinated by the male sawfly in similar way to the pollination of Drakaea (the hammer Orchid). There are still problems with the classification of the Orchid in a subtribe.

External links

• Media related to Caleana at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Caleana at Wikispecies