Scientific Name: Thelymitra cyanea

Common Name: veined sun-orchid

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Orchidaceae

Form Description: A veined, late-flowering usually blue sun orchid, fleshy dark-green leaf, often black on margins.

Height (m): 0.2 – 0.4

Flowers: 1-5 readily opening blue, rarely pink or white, with darker veins on the tepals. Labellum larger and wider than other segments, margin often wavy. Column white, scrolled column arms yellow lacking tufts.

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCentral HighlandsDerwent ValleyDorsetGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayGlenorchyHobartHuon ValleyKentishKing IslandKingboroughLatrobeMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsTasmanWaratah-WynyardWest CoastWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Alpine and Sub-alpine VegetationCoastal VegetationHeathRiparianSedgeland and Wetland
Habitat Notes

Fairly common from coastal heathland to alpine moorland on poorly drained soils often at the sides of streams or waterways.

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Specialist Method

Seed Information

Seed Treatment Notes

Orchid seeds are very minute yellow, brown or blackish dust-like particles. Orchid seeds are produced within a capsule that splits at maturity and releases thousands to millions of seeds. Dispersed by wind and water and only germinate following infection of the embryo by a suitable mycorrhizal fungus. Very few seeds become mature plants. For more information see Jones, Wapstra, Tonelli, Harris (1999): The Orchids of Tasmania.