It has a single hairy leaf and up to three large, mainly white flowers with long, drooping lateral sepals and petals.

It is most similar to subspecies eminems but has smaller flowers and shorter teeth on the side of the labellum.Caladenia longicauda subsp.

[2][3][4][5] Caladenia longicauda was first formally described by John Lindley in 1840 and the description was published in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony.

[3] The tangled white spider orchid mainly occurs between Collie, Mount Barker and York in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest biogeographic regions where it grows in flat areas which are inundated in winter.

redacta is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.