Family: Orchidaceae
Plant: A terrestrial orchid up to 30cm high.
Flowers: Blue or pinkish orchid flowers 3cm across with 3 petals and 3 sepals with or without dark blue spots on the upper 3 segments. It bears up to 9 flowers in a spike at the ends of slender erect stems.
Flowering: August-October.
Fruit: Capsule
Leaves: Single, ribbed, basal linear grass-like leaf 20cm long and 1cm wide.
Habitat: In sunny locations in heathland and dry sclerophyll forest.
Features: Single ribbed grass-like leaf. Blue orchid flower with or without spots.
Name:
Thelymitra From Greek = female hat (referring to the hooded column of its flowers).
ixioides From the plant being like the South African Ixia Lily.
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Type |
Herb |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Pink, Blue |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
6 |
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Flowering Month |
8, 9, 10 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Basal |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear |
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Length |
Long |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Heathland, Dry sclerophyll forest |
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