Plant: tall with rusty red stems and an erect green leaf.

Flowers: Up to 12, blue to pink, sometimes white, often strongly veined, occasionally clear pink overall. Column top is arched over, thick margined, edged with yellow or orange and broadly cleft. Column arms sickle-shaped with few or no cilia.

Habitat: lowland scrub and clay areas. Northland, local, rare.

Flowering: October.

Conservation: uncommon.

Notes: regarded aspart of the variation in T. pauciflora. and not currently accepted as a species

Key features: column top yellow or orange, lack of cilia, rounded column top.