Caladenia hildae, commonly known as golden caps, or honey caladenia is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to the south-east of mainland Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single leaf and up to four yellowish-brown to golden-brown flowers with darker tips on the sepals and petals.
Caladenia hildae is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and a single, sparsely hairy, linear leaf, long and wide. There are up to four flowers on a spike tall. The flowers are yellowish-brown to golden-brown flowers with darker tips. The sepals and petals have pointed, drooping tips. The sepal is erect, long and about wide and curves forward forming a hood over and around the sides of the column. The sepals and petals are long and about wide. The labellum is egg-shaped, long, wide with the sides turned up and the tip rolled under. The labellum is white with a dark purple, glandular tip, narrow white or yellow-tipped teeth on the sides and four crowded rows of calli along its mid-line. Flowering occurs in October and November.
Caladenia hildae was first formally described in 1928 by Edward Pescott and William Nicholls and the description was published in The Victorian Naturalist. The specific epithet (hildae) honours Hilda Elliott for her assistance in obtaining grant money.
Golden caps grows in sparse or heathy forest and woodland in high-altitude areas in New South Wales south from the Kybean Range and in Victoria mainly eastwards from Omeo.
Caladenia hildae is listed as "endangered" under the Victorian Government Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988.