Recorded distribution
Plant
To 60cm tall in flower, robust. Stem often tinged with purple. Leaves wide and strap-like, tinged with purple.
Flowers
Up to 32 flowers, purplish blue. Column pale blue to white, top rounded, deep orange, deeply notched. Column arms with short tufts of white or mauve cilia.
Flowering
October - November.
Habitat
Open clay areas amongst scrub. Widespread.
Conservation
Not assessed.
Notes
An undescribed species of the Thelymitra pauciflora group.
Key features
Column top bright orange, rather than yellow, deeply cleft and the flowers intensely coloured.
