New Zealand Native Orchids
 
 
Thelymitra sansfimbria
 

 


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Plant: Robust, up to 60cm tall in flower. Leaves, long, wide, and keeled forming a long sheath at the base of the flower stem.

Flowers: 6 or more, up to 2cm across, plain blue with no stripes, fragrant. The column arms are variable, but usually flat, pointed, toothed blades that lack any cilia.

Flowering: October - December.

Habitat: Damp areas amongst scrub.

Conservation: Data deficient, recorded from Northland but possibly found elsewhere.

Notes: A perfumed, unstriped form of Thelymitra pulchella

Key features: naked, bifid column arms, blue flower.