Recorded distribution
Plant
Small, with thin twisted stem. Leaf very narrow, almost cylindrical, inner face grooved.
Flowers
Few, salmon pink, rarely cream or yellow. Apex of column bright yellow, fleshy, top open, unevenly crimped, column arms fleshy, without cilia, margins toothed. Anther cap prominent, blunt, yellow.
Flowering
September - November.
Habitat
Open scrubland. Northland to Banks Peninsula.
Conservation
Widespread, locally common.
Notes
Early flowering with a distinctive flexuous stem and pink flowers with naked column arms. The yellow flowered form has been named T. imberbis but cannot otherwise be distinguished from the pink.
Key features
Pink or yellow flowers, naked column arms, open, ragged column top.
