Thelymitra mucida

Thelymitra mucida Fitzg.

Plum Orchid

Thelymitra macrophylla (Blue Sun Orchids)

Robert Fitzgerald in Gard.Chron. 17:495 (1882)

Three Springs to Bremer Bay with disjunct populations east of Esperance, growing in seasonally wet flats and along drainage lines. Also found in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania.

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A swamp-dwelling species 300–500 mm high with a narrow, smooth leaf 150–200 mm long by 5–7 mm wide and up to six small, plum-coloured flowers 15–20 mm across.

It is distinguished from the other members of the Thelymitra macrophylla complex by its small purple striped flowers and distinctive column with a prominently cleft purple and yellow mid lobe and yellow, tufted lateral lobes.

Not Listed