It is easily distinguished by its relatively large, green leaf, and pink flowers on an unusually tall spike.

Caladenia latifolia is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and which often grows in large colonies.

The lateral lobes are pink with dark stripes, narrow oblong in shape, and sometimes have small teeth on the edge.

[3] On rare occasions it hybridises with the large white spider orchid (Caladenia longicauda subsp.

longicauda).Caladenia latifolia was first described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae.

[2][14] In Western Australia, pink fairies occurs between Kalbarri in the north and Israelite Bay in the south, growing in a wide range of habitats from coastal heath to the margins of inland salt lakes.