Citation: Hook. F., Fl. Tasm. 2:4 (1858).

Synonymy: Macdonaldia antennifera Linalley, Sketch Veg. Swan Riv. Col. 1 (1840).

Common name: Rabbit-ears.

Description:
Slender, generally 12-20 cm high; leaf terete and rather long, stem wiry, flexuose; stem bracts 2, situated at angles of flexion; flowers large, 1-3, yellow, opening freely, sweet-scented; perianth-segments yellow on the inside; sepals with a wide reddish-brown stripe externally, elliptical or oblong-elliptical, 15-16 mm long; column erect and rather wide, not hooded, broadly winged; the column-arms produced laterally into 2 erect dark or red-brown smooth spathulate usually 2-lobed appendages, much longer than the anther, (like rabbit-ears); the post-anther lobe between the column-arms not produced behind the anther; anther 2-celled, situated wholly above the stigma, its apex produced into a broad thick yellow curved pubescent blunt process (anther point); stigma transversely oval, situated low down on the column; rostellum conspicuous; pollinia 2, each 2-lobed, attached directly or by a very short caudicle to the viscid disk.

Published illustration: Cady & Rotherham (1970) Australian native orchids in colour, pl. 24; Pocock (1972) Ground orchids of Australia, t. 136; Hoffman & Brown (1964) Orchids of south-west Australia, p. 20.

Distribution:  Forms small to extensive populations in open forest, grassland, heath or mallee heathlands and locally common. S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

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. rubra and T. luteocilium (see T. xmacmillanii).

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