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. |
Coloured Sun Orchids | Sun Orchids Key | Dome topped Sun Orchids |