Wallflower Donkey-orchid
Flower, Throat		Adelaide Hills
Bullard Donkey-orchid
Flower, above/back		 
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Bullard Donkey-orchid (Diuris orientis x pardina)Class: Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)
Order: Asparagus (Asparagales)
Family: Orchid (Orchidaceae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Bullard Donkey-orchid (Diuris orientis x pardina)
This Photo:     🔍Flower, anterior🔎
Thank you Robert Lawrence for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
We call these Bullard Donkey-orchid. A "Bull"dogs & Leop"ard" cross/hybrid.
We've marked it as a man made hybrid as they only hybridised due to clearance of land. Before western settlement, they didn't exist. However, the actual hybridisation occurred naturally; once they were in pollenation vacinity due to the land clearing.
The last photo shows a comparison between Leopard, Bullard & Bulldog orchids.
All photographed within about 20m or so.
Copyright © 2016-2025 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 02-Oct-2016
This species is classed as Ih (Hybrid)