Plant: tall, slender to 60 cm tall.

Flowers: mauve to blue, petals and sepals large, narrow, opening wide. Column tall narrow, blue to mauve, strongly arched forwards, almost tubular, shaped like an inverted scoop. Top purplish brown, with a broad round, yellow tip. Column arms with tufts of mauve cilia.

Habitat: peaty wetlands, often on rotting kauri logs.

Flowering: October to November.

Conservation: usually solitary; recent arrival, coloniser. Northland only.

Notes: distinctive large blue flowers with arched column top.

Key features: mauve flowers, tall narrow column strongly arched forwards.