Citation: Nicholls, Victorian Nat. 49:263 (1933).

Synonymy: T. pauciflora R. Br. var. holmesii (Nicholls)Nicholls, Victorian Nat. 60:56 (1943).

Common name: Slender blue swamp sun-orchid.

Description:
Plant slender, 10-40 cm high; leaf narrow-linear, thick and fleshy, deeply channelled, to 20 cm long and 3-10 mm wide.

Flowers bright-blue inside, slatecoloured outside, usually 1-3, rarely up to 10, in a loose raceme, opening in warm sunshine; perianth-segrnents similar, elliptic, subacute, 9-13 mm long; column erect, c. 5 mm high, hooded, column-arms terete, erect, hair-tufts cream to yellow, usually reddish or purple at the base, post-anther lobe dark-coloured, exceeding the anther, produced into a bright-yellow flared hood with deeply cleft involute margins; anther above the stigma, no caudicle, self-pollinated.

Published illustration: Bates (1984) Australian orchid review 49:115.

Distribution:  Forms small populations in swamps in high rainfall areas.   Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Nov. — Dec.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Putative hybrids have been reported with T. ixioides (SL) and T. pauciflora (SL, SE).

Author: Not yet available