Plant: leaf upright, rather flat and often twisted to one side, base of stem red.

Flowers: up to 7, dusky blue to pinkish mauve. Upper column bronze brown, occasionally red, the apex blunt, yellow and scarcely curved forwards, notched. Cilia sparse, white.

Flowering: October to November, often earlier than T. pauciflora.

Habitat: lowland to montane, peatbogs, gumland scrub, forests and clay banks.

Conservation: widespread sometimes common; not threatened.

Notes: part of the T. pauciflora complex but more delicate, column top thin and notched.

Key features: column top rounded, deeply notched, brown with yellow tip, leaf twisted to one side.