Cyanicula aperta

Cyanicula aperta Hopper & A.P.Br.

Caladenia aperta; Cyanicula caerulea subsp. apertala

Western Tiny Blue Orchid

Cyanicula sericea (Blue Orchids)

Stephen Hopper & Andrew Brown in Austral.Syst.Bot. 17:229, Fig.13 (2004)

Katanning to Israelite Bay, growing in sandy, sandy-clay and lateritic soils in woodlands and shrublands.

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A common south-eastern species 50–150 mm high with a scarcely hairy leaf, 30–100 mm long by 3–4 mm wide , which is usually green on the underside and up to two bluish-mauve (rarely white) flowers 20–25 mm across.

It is distinguished from the related Dainty Blue Orchid (Cyanicula amplexans) by its narrower leaf, more widely spaced labellum lateral lobes and south-easterly distribution.

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