Recorded distribution
Plant
With bright green, fleshy flattened V-shaped leaf.
Flowers
Mid blue, rarely opens. Column violet at the base, top yellow opening upwards in a deep oval cleft with a rolled edge, a dark band between. Column arms with dense white, crinkled cilia.
Flowering
November - December.
Habitat
Wetlands, thriving in black ooze. Kaitaia northwards, local.
Conservation
Few localities. Threatened - Nationally Critical..
Notes
Like T. “darkie” in column form and colour but differing in habitat and flower, stem or leaf not as dark. Voucher specimen (WELT79140; Ahipara)
Key features
Peaty wetland habitat, column violet, cleft at the top, column arms with crinkly cilia.
