New Zealand Native Orchids
 
 

Cleft-topped Sun Orchids
   
Thelymitra aemula

Habitat: damp or dry ground - open kauri and gumland scrub in the Northland south to Nelson.

Key features: Column top scarcely domed over, deeply cleft with long column arms.

 
Thelymitra tholiformis

Habitat: scrub and clay areas. Northland to Waikato.

Key features: erect column with black rounded top meeting at a denticulate yellow slot.

 
Thelymitra brevifolia

Habitat: sea level to montane, dry tracksides. reported so far only from Northland, NW Nelson and Marlborough

Key features: pale flowers, column top rounded bronze with a deep rounded cleft, cilia sparse, leaf short broad.

Thelymitra colensoi

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

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

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